Division 1.4.7 Sub-delegation to Eurostat

The sub-delegation should be made for budget line 17 03 01 01.

A sub-delegation for a maximum amount of EUR 500 000 shall be given to Eurostat. The latter will implement the following actions through financing grants:

1. (1)

   To support national statistical authorities in the implementation in 2006-2008 of the European Core Health Interview Survey modules (as defined in the Statistical Programme 2006);

2. (2)

   To support national statistical authorities in the implementation of some special/supplementary modules (as defined by the Steering Committee SANCO/Eurostat for the European Health Survey System) for those health surveys;

3. (3)

   To support national statistical authorities in the implementation and further expansion of the System of Health Accounts in the EU (in co-operation with the OECD and WHO);

4. (4)

   To support the development of the System of Health Accounts in areas not covered by the direct agreements with the OECD.

For the actions related to the above, the general principles, the exclusion criteria, the selection criteria and the award criteria which were adopted by the Commission on 14 January 2005^f1 shall apply as regards the call for proposals implemented by Eurostat. Nevertheless, as regards the actions referred to under (1), (2) and (3), the grants will be awarded up to a maximum of 80 % of eligible costs per beneficiary and may involve only one eligible country.

The results of these proposed grant actions will be:

• the translation, testing and preparation for the implementation in national surveys, over the period 2006-2008 depending on the Member States, of the health survey modules adopted in 2006 by the European Statistical System (core modules on health determinants, health care use and background module) and the Steering Committee of the European Health Survey System (special modules) respectively;

• supporting the implementation of the common data collection Eurostat-OECD-WHO of the System of Health Accounts (SHA), e.g. via inventory of sources and calculation methods by using the road map, training, development of data collection for sectors not yet covered by the SHA in some countries (for example the private health sector), development of media for data extraction from various administrative sources, etc.

The anticipated end result of these actions is high quality national statistical data collections from the European health survey modules and system of health accounts. These data will be submitted to and disseminated by Eurostat (web site, publications, calculation of related European Community Health Indicators).