Foreign AffiliaTes Statistics (FATS) - Recommendations Manual - Products Manuals and Guidelines

(FATS)

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The Regulation (EC) No 716/2007 of the European Parliament and the Council (EC) on the structure and activity of foreign affiliates as the regulatory framework for the provision of foreign affiliates statistics (FATS) was adopted in 2007. The Regulation aims to make sure that harmonised inward and outward FATS data are available.

The Eurostat FATS recommendations manual, as called for in article 7 of the regulation, plays a crucial role in the compilation process. It provides the definitions and guidelines for national compilers which are the indispensable precondition for obtaining FATS which can be added together to produce meaningful EU-wide aggregates. To make sure that the manual is not only in line with the rules in the FATS Regulation but also meets the needs and realities national compilers face in practice, it has been thoroughly discussed in various meetings of the FATS joint working group.

This second edition of the manual is derived from the first one published in July 2007 and replaces it. Main changes concern the technical format and procedures for data transmission, the implementation of NACE Rev. 2 and the quality reports.