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With the EuroGroups Register (EGR) project, Eurostat has created a network of business registers used for statistical purposes in European Union (EU) and and European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries, focused on multinational enterprise groups.

A multinational enterprise group is defined as an enterprise group comprising at least 2 enterprises or legal units located in different countries.

To create the EuroGroups Register, Eurostat collects input information on group members and on their relationships from the national statistical business registers of EU MSs and EFTA countries, and purchases data on the rest of the world legal units from commercial source.

After consolidation and validation, the register contains the global structures of the multinational enterprise groups. National statistical business register staff and statistics compilers are given access to all units of the multinational enterprise groups, if at least one of the group’s units is within their national territory. These populations can be used for national survey frames, production of globalisation related official statistics, and quality checks.

The necessary data exchange within European Statistical System [[Glossary:ESS|ESS] and European System of Central Banks [[Glossary:ESCB|ESCB] is defined Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 of the European Parlament and of the Council of 27 November 2019 on European business statistics and implemented through Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1197 of 30 July 2020.

To make it easier to identify the relevant statistical entities (i.e. the enterprises) of large and complex multinational enterprise groups, a project has been set up to develop a standardised method for ‘profiling’.

This article is part of the online European business statistics manual, a comprehensive guide to methodologies and how European business statistics are produced within the ESS. </highlight>

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EuroGroups Register production cycles

The EGR produces annual data. Its frames for reference year T are available for users 15 months after the end of the reference year, in March T+2. The EuroGroups Register’s first reference year was 2008, since when a frame has been produced for all reference years.

For 2008, the EGR system produced data on 6350 multinational enterprise groups. For reference year 2009, the second EGR cycle processed data on over 8 000 groups. The 2010 and 2011 EGR cycles produced data on over 10 000 multinational enterprise groups. These 4 EGR cycles were implemented using version 1.0 of the EGR system. The EGR 1.0 process was based on commercial data, which were validated through comparison with national data.

Work towards developing the EGR 2.0 system started in 2012, and the new process was fully launched in 2015. The switch to EGR 2.0 improved both the EGR process and the IT system. Currently, EGR collects data from national statistical institutes and complements them with commercial data. As a result of the changeover from EGR 1.0 to EGR 2.0, NSI data - which are only supplemented by commercial data - became more relevant.

EGR 2.0 aims to cover all relevant multinational enterprise groups active in Europe.

Data

The EGR registers the following units of a multinational enterprise group and their characteristics:

  • legal units: identification, demographic events, stratification parameters, control and ownership characteristics;
  • enterprises: identification, link to other units, demographic events, stratification parameters and economic variables;
  • enterprise groups: identification, group structure, the residence country code of ultimate controlling institutional unit, the group head, the global decision centre, stratification parameters and economic variables.

The EGR is the platform that supports the production of micro-based statistics on globalisation in Europe. EGR micro-data help national statistical institutes and national central banks compile statistics and are not disseminated by Eurostat to the public.

The EGR is designed to provide a unique survey frame for these and other statistics and thereby to serve as the basic tool for improving these statistics, while also reducing the reporting burden.

The EGR is the source of the related Statistics Explained article Structure of multinational enterprise groups in the EU, presenting the population of active multinational groups in the EU.

Information system

EGR version 2.0 offers online applications for users with remote access. With the EGR applications users can identify legal units, browse and improve EGR data during the cycle. Users and producers alike benefit from the following EGR applications:

  • EuroGroups register identification service - an application supporting the EGR producers in identifying legal units.
  • EuroGroups Register CORE application - the heart of the EGR system, it stores, transforms and consolidates input data received from different sources and generates the EGR frames.
  • EuroGroups Register interactive module - an interactive web interface to browse and validate data in the consolidation area of EGR.
  • EuroGroups register FATS online interface - an application providing users with a foreign affiliates statistics (FATS) oriented web interface for browsing and downloading EGR data.


Eurostat has set up a wiki platform with extensive information on various topics covered by the EGR project. Access is restricted to EGR data producers and users working in national statistical authorities. The EGR wiki provides:

  • full, detailed EGR documentation
  • a calendar of EGR activities
  • quality indicators
  • a forum for discussing and share experiences among members.

Context

The fragmented picture that EU countries currently have of multinational enterprise groups operating on the EU market causes growing problems of harmonisation for several types of statistics affected by globalisation (including foreign affiliates statistics (FATS), foreign direct investment and external trade).

The EGR was developed as part of the programme for modernisation of European enterprise and trade statistics (MEETS).

In 2016 Eurostat and the EU countries launched a programme designed to improve the quality of national statistical business registers and the EGR. The programme monitors existing data quality of registers (‘as is’ state) and defines quality criteria (‘to be’ state). Assessment of data quality provides information that can be used to further improve national and European data quality. EGR recommendations are regularly drawn up with a view to constantly improving data quality.

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  • Overview of methodologies of European business statistics: EBS manual
  • Dedicated wiki page on the EuroGroups Register with restricted access to data producers and users: EGR wiki page


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