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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2007-1578/annex-I/division-3/division-3.1",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2007/1578",
  "legislation_title": "Decision No 1578/2007/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2007 on the Community Statistical Programme 2008 to 2012 (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2007-1578",
  "path": "annex/I/division/3/division/3.1",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "3.1",
  "heading": "Better regulation",
  "text": "Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC) No 322/97 sets out three types of ‘individual statistical actions’ that can be used to implement the Community statistical programme: first, legislation adopted under the co-decision procedure, which may confer implementation powers on the Commission; second, actions taken directly by the Commission, under very limited circumstances: the action must last for no longer than one year, the data to be gathered must already be available or accessible within the national authorities responsible, and any additional costs incurred at national level as a result of the action must be borne by the Commission; third, agreements between Eurostat and the Member State authorities.\nEnactment of legislation in accordance with Treaty provisions should be the preferred choice in most situations where the collection of statistics is necessary. This will be based on a realistic legislative policy in conformity with the Commission’s policy in favour of simpler and well targeted legislation. New legislative initiatives will be exhaustively prepared with the stakeholders and they should address the users’ needs, avoid excessive burden on respondents, and take due account of priorities, costs and the possibilities for delivering.\nThe objectives for the programme period are to take initiatives to:\nreplace agreements by Community legislation in certain areas of regular production of Community statistics which have reached sufficient maturity,\nrecast and simplify the legislation in statistical areas with complex Community legislation, and\nrepeal or revise the legislation in statistical areas where the Community legislation does not effectively reflect users’ needs, priorities and the socioeconomic and technological context.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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