Archive:EuroGroups register
With the EuroGroups Register (EGR) project, Eurostat is currently creating a network of business registers used for statistical purposes in Member States, focused on multinational enterprise groups.
A multinational enterprise group (MNE) is defined as an enterprise group composed of at least two enterprises or legal units located in different countries.
In order to create the EGR, Eurostat collects enterprise group information from commercial sources and the national statistical business registers of the EU Member States and participating EFTA countries.
After the consolidation and validation process the register contains the global structure of the enterprise group. National register staff and statistics compilers receive access to all units of the MNE, if at least one unit of the group is located in their national territory. These populations can be used for survey frames at national level.
The necessary data exchange between the national business registers and Eurostat is defined in Article 11 of the business registers Regulation and implemented through the exchange of confidential data Regulation.
To facilitate the identification of statistical entities (i.e. the enterprises) of large and complex MNEs, a project was launched with the aim to develop a common method for 'profiling'.
Main findings
Development of the EuroGroups Register
- 1st EGR cycle carried out in 2009;
- 2nd EGR cycle started in 2010. The EuroGroups Register currently contains information on the 6 350 most important MNEs (in terms of total employment).
- The scope of the EGR shall be extended to cover by 2013 all relevant MNEs, acting in Europe.
Data
The following units of a MNE and their characteristics are in the EuroGroups register:
- legal units: identity, demographic, control and ownership characteristics;
- enterprises: identity and demographic characteristics, activity code (NACE), number of persons employed, turnover, institutional sector;
- enterprise groups: identity, demographic characteristics, the structure of the group, the group head, the country of global decision centre, activity code (NACE), consolidated employment and turnover of the group.
The EGR is foreseen to become the platform that supports the production of micro based statistics on globalisation in Europe. The data will serve national statistical institutes and national central banks to compile statistics and will not be disseminated by Eurostat to the public.
The EGR should serve as a unique survey frame for these and other statistics and thereby form the basic tool for improving these statistics, while also reducing the reporting burden.
Data sources and availability
Context
The fragmented picture, the EU Member States currently have of MNEs operating in the European market, is causing increasing harmonisation problems for several statistics affected by globalisation (including foreign affiliates statistics (FATS), foreign direct investment (FDI), and external trade).
The development of the EGR is part of the programme for modernisation of European enterprise and trade statistics (MEETS).
Further Eurostat information
Publications
Main tables
- Title(s) of second level folder (if any)
- Title(s) of third level folder (if any)
Database
- Title(s) of second level folder (if any)
- Title(s) of third level folder (if any)
Dedicated section
Methodology / Metadata
Methodology on enterprise groups and registers is available in the business registers recommendations manual.
Source data for tables, figures and maps on this page (MS Excel)
Other information
Regulation 177/2008 of 20 February 2008 establishing a common framework for business registers for statistical purposes and repealing
Regulation 2186/93
Regulation 696/1993 of 15 March 1993 on the statistical units for the observation and analysis of the production system in the Community
Regulation 192/2009 of 11 March 2009 implementing Regulation 177/2008 establishing a common framework for business registers for statistical purposes, as regards the exchange of confidential data between the Commission (Eurostat) and Member States
Decision 252/2009 of 11 March 2009 concerning derogations from certain provisions of Regulation 177/2008 establishing a common framework for business registers for statistical purposes
Decision 1297/2008 of 16 December 2008 on a Programme for the Modernisation of European Enterprise and Trade Statistics (MEETS)