Legislation - Education and training

Basic legal acts by data collection

• Education systems and adult education survey (2011 and 2016): EU regulation 452/2008 on the production and development of statistics on education and lifelong learning
• Adult education survey (from 2022): EU regulation 2019/1700 on a common framework for European statistics relating to persons and households, based on data at individual level collected from samples
• Continuing vocational training survey: EU regulation 1552/2005 on statistics relating to vocational training in enterprises 
• Labour force survey: please refer to the LFS legislation page

Implementing regulations by data collection

• Education systems
  • School year 2010-2011 and 2011-2012: EU regulation 88/2011 on education and training systems and its derogations
  • From school year 2012-2013 onwards: EU regulation 912/2013 on education and training systems and its derogations
• Adult Education Survey
  • 2011: EU regulation 823/2010 on the participation of adults in lifelong learning and its derogations
  • 2016 AES: EU regulation 1175/2014  on the participation of adults in lifelong learning and its derogations
  • 2022 AES: EU regulation 2021/861 on the technical items of the data set and establishing the technical formats for transmission of information on the organisation of a sample survey in the education and training domain
• Continuing Vocational Training Survey 
  • CVTS 3 (2005): EU regulation 198/2006 on statistics relating to vocational training in enterprises
  • CVTS 4 (2010): EU regulation 822/2010 on statistics relating to vocational training in enterprises and the consolidated version of EU refgulation 198/2006
  • CVTS 5 (2015) and CVTS 6 (2020): EU regulation 1153/2014 on the data to be collected, and the sampling, precision and quality requirements and the consolidated version of EU regulation 198/2006