COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2020/2039

of 9 December 2020

granting derogations to certain Member States from the application of Commission Implementing Regulations (EU) 2019/2240 and (EU) 2019/2241

(notified under document C(2020) 8602)

(Only the Croatian, Danish, Dutch and Polish texts are authentic)

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 October 2019 establishing a common framework for European statistics relating to persons and households, based on data at individual level collected from samples, amending Regulations (EC) No 808/2004, (EC) No 452/2008 and (EC) No 1338/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council Regulation (EC) No 577/98 (1), and in particular Article 19(1) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) In accordance with Article 19(5) of Regulation (EU) 2019/1700, Denmark, Croatia, the Netherlands and Poland submitted requests for derogation within 3 months of the date of entry into force of the Commission Implementing Regulations (EU) 2019/2240 (2) and (EU) 2019/2241 (3).

(2) It appears from the information provided to the Commission that the requests of Denmark, Croatia, the Netherlands and Poland are justified by the need for major adaptations to national administrative and statistical systems in order to comply with Implementing Regulations (EU) 2019/2240 and (EU) 2019/2241.

(3) The requested derogations should therefore be granted to Denmark, Croatia, the Netherlands and Poland.

(4) The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the European Statistical System Committee,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Derogations from Implementing Regulations (EU) 2019/2240 and (EU) 2019/2241 as set out in the Annex are granted to the Member States listed therein.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of Denmark, the Republic of Croatia, the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Republic of Poland.

Done at Brussels, 9 December 2020.

For the Commission

Paolo GENTILONI

Member of the Commission

(1)

OJ L 261 I, 14.10.2019, p. 1

(2) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2240 of 16 December 2019 specifying the technical items of the data set, establishing the technical formats for transmission of information and specifying the detailed arrangements and content of the quality reports on the organisation of a sample survey in the labour force domain in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 of the European Parliament and of the Council (

OJ L 336, 30.12.2019, p. 59

(3) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2241 of 16 December 2019 describing the variables and the length, quality requirements and level of detail of the time series for the transmission of monthly unemployment data pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 of the European Parliament and of the Council (

OJ L 336, 30.12.2019, p. 125

ANNEX

Derogations from Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2240

Provision concerned

Member State

Derogation period granted

Scope of the derogation

Article 3 (Descriptions of variables) and Annex I

Croatia

1 year (2021)

Transmission of the variables INCGROSS (Gross monthly pay from the main job) and INCGROSS_F (Flag on gross monthly pay from the main job) as a net instead of a gross amount

Article 3 (Descriptions of variables) and Annex I

Croatia

1 year (2021)

Transmission of the variable HATFIELD (Field of the highest level of education successfully completed) in accordance with ISCED-F 2013, 2-digit coding instead of 3-digit coding.

Article 6(2) (Detailed sample characteristics)

The Netherlands

1 year (2021)

Uniform sample distribution:

—	The full national sample of the reference year will not be uniformly distributed between all the reference quarters of the year.

—	In each reference quarter the full quarterly sample will not be uniformly distributed between all the reference weeks of the quarter.

Article 9(2) (Common standards for editing, imputation, weighting and estimation)

Poland

2 years (2021–2022)

Transmission of the variable INCGROSS (Gross monthly pay from the main job) without statistical imputation for item non-response.

Transmission of corrected data with imputation for years 2021 and 2022 will take place together with the transmission of the data for 2023, namely in March 2025.

Derogations from Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2241

Provision concerned	Member State	Derogation period granted	Scope of the derogation
Article 4(1)(a) (Transmission deadlines)	Denmark	3 years (2021–2023)	Monthly unemployment data for the month of November shall be transmitted by 4 January of the following year.
Article 6(1) (Sources and methods)	Croatia	1 year (2021)	Description of the sources and methods used for the compilation of the monthly unemployment inputs shall be transmitted by 31 December 2021.