# Commission Regulation (EC) No 1668/2003 of 1 September 2003 implementing Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 with regard to the technical format for the transmission of the structural business statistics and amending Commission Regulation No 2702/98 concerning the technical format for the transmission of structural business statistics

EU Regulation No 1668/2003 · adopted 1 September 2003

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1668/2003 of 1 September 2003 implementing Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 with regard to the technical format for the transmission of the structural business statistics and amending Commission Regulation No 2702/98 concerning the technical format for the transmission of structural business statistics

## Introductory text

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1668/2003
of 1 September 2003
implementing Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 with regard to the technical format for the transmission of the structural business statistics and amending Commission Regulation No 2702/98 concerning the technical format for the transmission of structural business statistics
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 of 20 December 1996 concerning structural business statistics, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1667/2003, and in particular Article 12 (viii) thereof,
Whereas:
(1)
Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 established a common framework for the production of Community statistics on the structure, activity, performance and competitiveness of the banking and the pension fund sector in the Community.
(2)
In order to facilitate the transmission of statistics on environmental expenditure, the technical format provided for by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2702/98 of 17 December 1998 concerning the technical format for the transmission of structural business statistics, as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1614 /2002, should be adjusted. Regulation (EC) No 2702/98 defined the technical format for the transmission of the structural business statistics characteristics listed in the common module and the detailed modules for industry, distributive trades and construction of Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97. It is necessary to amend this technical format in order to take account of the addition of characteristics on environmental expenditure as well as the addition of the breakdown by environmental domains for some characteristics of the detailed module on industry of Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97.
(3)
It is necessary to specify the technical format for the transmission of structural business statistics on credit institutions and pension funds listed in Annexes 6 and 7 to Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 in order to produce data comparable and harmonised between Member States, to reduce the risk of errors in the transmission of data and to increase the speed with which the data collected can be processed and made available to users. It is necessary to define another technical format for the transmission of the characteristics of the detailed modules on credit institutions and pension funds as the technical format defined in Regulation (EC) No 2702/98 for the transmission of the characteristics of the common module and the detailed modules on industry, distributive trades and construction provides for a different breakdown of results.
(4)
The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Statistical Programme Committee,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

## 1 

The Annex to Regulation (EC) No 2702/98 is amended in accordance with Annex I to this Regulation.

## 2 

The technical format referred to in Article 9 of Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 for Annex 6 is defined in Annex II to this Regulation.

## 3 

The technical format referred to in Article 9 of Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 for Annex 7 is defined in Annex III to this Regulation.

## 4 

Member States shall apply this format for the data concerning the 2001 reference year and subsequent years, with the exception of the data of Annex 7 for which this format shall be applied for the data concerning the 2002 reference year and subsequent years.

## 5 

This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

## Signature

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

## Annex I 

The Annex to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2702/98 is amended as follows:
1.. In the record structure described in paragraph 2 the following row is added
‘
Breakdown by environmental domains
A
4
Code for environmental domains (only used in industry)
’
2.. The following series is added to the table in paragraph 3.1 The series type:
Series type
Code
‘Environmental protection expenditure broken down by size classes
2O’
3.. The following series is renamed in table in paragraph 3.1. The series type
Series type
Code
‘Environmental protection expenditure broken down by environmental domains
2B’
4.. The following variables are added to the table in paragraph 3.7. Variable
Variable
Code
‘Investment in equipment and plant linked to cleaner technology (“integrated technology”)
21 12 0
Total current expenditure on environmental protection
21 14 0’
5.. The following table is added:
‘
3.14.
Breakdown by environmental domains
Breakdown of products/environmental domains
Code
Protection of ambient air and climate
ED01
Wastewater management
ED02
Waste management
ED03
Other environmental protection activities
ED09
’

## Annex II: TECHNICAL FORMAT FOR STATISTICS ON CREDIT INSTITUTIONS

## 1 The form of the data

The data is sent as a set of records of which a large part describes the characteristics of the data (country, year, economic activity etc.). The data itself is a number which can be linked to flags and explanatory footnotes used for example to describe aggregations of NACE codes. Confidential data should be sent with the true value being recorded in the value field and a flag indicating the nature of the confidential data being added to the record.
In order to be precise about the nature of the data, it is necessary to distinguish the following special cases:
data equal to zero (coded ‘0’): real values of zero only (the phenomenon it describes does not exist in the country),
missing data (coded ‘m’): this is data which is currently missing but the Member State intends to supply when available,
data not available: this is data which is not collected in a Member State. In this case, the corresponding record is not sent.
By default, if an entire dimension (a variable, a NUTS code, a Size Class code etc.) is not collected then the corresponding records will not exist (except for those which are missing because they form part of a regrouping of NACE codes. This is why it is important to distinguish data which is really missing by supplying a record (one per missing item) in which the data value is coded as ‘m’, and data which is really equal to zero by supplying the corresponding records in which the data value is set to 0.

## 2 Data set structure

The data set shall consist of the following fields
NB:
A = Alphanumeric, N = Numeric
Field
Type
Maximum length
Values
1
Series
A
2
6A, 6B, 6C, 6D, 6E, 6F, 6G, 6H. Alphanumeric code of the series (see list below)
2
Year
A
4
Year in four characters e.g. 2001
3
Territorial unit
A
6
Corresponds to the country code for national series or to the NUTS 99 code of the region for regional series: NUTS 99 is the new nomenclature put in place in December 1999
4
Economic activity
A
4
NACE rev. 1 code
5
Measurement
A
3
Variable — type of measurement —
6
Unit
A
4
Unit
7
Variable
A
5
Variable code. The codes laid down in Annex 6 of the SBS Regulation have 5 characters (see list below)
8
Size class
A
4
Code for the size class (see list below)
or
Residence of parent enterprise
Code for the country of residence of the parent enterprise (see list below)
or
Category
Code for the category of credit institutions (see list below)
9
Breakdown of products
A
6
Corresponds to the CPA code (see list below)
10
Legal status or
A
4
Code for the legal status of enterprise (see list below)
Geographical breakdown
Code for the geographical breakdown of the partner countries (see list below)
11
Data Value
A
12
Numeric value of the data (negative values are preceded by a minus sign) expressed as a whole number without decimal places. An ‘M’ should be used if the data is not sent because it is missing
12
Quality flag
A
1
R: revised data, M: updated data, P: provisional data
13
Confidentiality flag
A
1
A, B, C, D: indicates that the data is confidential and the reason for that confidentiality (see list below). A blank space indicates non-confidential data
14
Dominance
N
3
A numeric value less than or equal to 100. This indicates the percentage dominance of one or two enterprises which dominate the data and make it confidential. The value is rounded to the nearest whole number: e.g. 90.3 becomes 90, 94.50 becomes 95. This field is blank for non-confidential data. This field is only used when the confidentiality flags B or C are used in the previous field
15
Footnote
A
250
Free note on the data

### Division 3: Description of the fields

## 3.1 Series

Series type
Code
Annual enterprise statistics
6A
Annual enterprise statistics broken down by legal status
6B
Annual enterprise statistics broken down according to the country of residence of the parent enterprise
6C
Annual enterprise statistics broken down by category of credit institutions
6D
Annual enterprise statistics broken down by size class
6E
Annual enterprise statistics broken down by product
6F
Annual enterprise statistics by geographical breakdown
6G
Annual regional statistics
6H

### Division 3.2: Year

## 3.3 Territorial unit

This code corresponds to the country for national series or to the region for the regional series (series 6H). It is based on the NUTS 99 code. For regions, two characters are added to the two characters for the country (see NUTS 99).
Country
Code
Belgium
BE
Bulgaria
BG
Denmark
DK
Germany
DE
Greece
GR
Spain
ES
France
FR
Ireland
IE
Italy
IT
Luxembourg
LU
The Netherlands
NL
Austria
AT
Portugal
PT
Romania
RO
Finland
FI
Sweden
SE
The United Kingdom
UK
Iceland
IS
Liechtenstein
LI
Norway
NO
Switzerland
CH

## 3.4 Economic activity

Economic activity title — NACE rev. 1 —
Code
Other monetary intermediation
6512
Other credit granting
6522

## 3.5 Measurement

Measurement
Code
National currency
NC
Euro
EUR
Number
NBR

## 3.6 Unit

Unit
Code
Unit
UNIT
Thousands
1 000
Millions
MIO
Billions
BIO

## 3.7 Variable

Variable title
Code
Structural data
Number of enterprises
11 11 0
Number of enterprises broken down by legal status
11 11 1
Number of enterprises broken down by residence of the parent enterprise
11 11 4
Number of enterprises broken down by size classes of the balance sheet total
11 11 6
Number of enterprises broken down by category of credit institutions
11 11 7
Number of local units
11 21 0
Total number of branches broken down by location in non-EEA countries
11 41 0
Total number of financial subsidiaries broken down by location in other countries
11 51 0
Accounting data: profit and loss account
Interest receivable and similar income
42 11 0
Interest receivable and similar income arising from fixed-income securities
42 11 1
Interest payable and similar charges
42 12 0
Interest payable and similar charges linked to debt securities in issue
42 12 1
Income from securities
42 13 0
Income from shares and other variable-yield securities
42 13 1
Commissions receivable
42 14 0
Commissions payable
42 15 0
Net profit or net loss on financial operations
42 20 0
Other operating income
42 31 0
General administrative expenses
42 32 0
Other administrative expenses
42 32 2
Other operating charges
42 33 0
Value adjustments and value re-adjustments in respect of loans and advances and provisions for contingent liabilities and for commitments
42 35 0
Other value adjustments and value re-adjustments
42 36 0
Profit or loss on ordinary activities
42 40 0
Extraordinary profit or loss
42 50 0
All taxes (tax on profit or loss on ordinary activities, tax on extraordinary profit or loss, other taxes)
42 51 0
Profit or loss for the financial year
42 60 0
Production value
12 12 0
Value added at basic prices
12 14 0
Value added at factor cost
12 15 0
Total purchases of goods and services
13 11 0
Personnel costs
13 31 0
Gross investment in tangible goods
15 11 0
Accounting data: balance sheet
Loans and advances to customers
43 11 0
Amounts owed to customers
43 21 0
Total of capital and reserves
43 29 0
Balance sheet total
43 30 0
Balance sheet total broken down according to the residence of the parent enterprise
43 31 0
Balance sheet total broken down by legal status
43 32 0
Data by product
Interest receivable and similar income broken down by (sub)categories of the CPA
44 11 0
Interest payable and similar charges broken down by (sub)categories of the CPA
44 12 0
Commissions receivable broken down by (sub)categories of the CPA
44 13 0
Commissions payable broken down by (sub)categories of the CPA
44 14 0
Data on internationalisation
Geographical breakdown of the total number of EEA branches
45 11 0
Geographical breakdown of interest receivable and similar income
45 21 0
Geographical breakdown of balance sheet total
45 22 0
Geographical breakdown of interest receivable and similar income via the freedom to provide services business (in other EEA countries)
45 31 0
Geographical breakdown of interest receivable and similar income via branch business (in non-EEA countries)
45 41 0
Geographical breakdown of interest receivable and similar income via the freedom to provide services business (in non-EEA countries)
45 42 0
Data on employment
Number of persons employed
16 11 0
Number of persons employed broken down by category of credit institutions
16 11 1
Number of women employed
16 11 2
Number of employees
16 13 0
Number of female employees
16 13 6
Number of employees in full-time equivalent units
16 14 0
Residual data
Number of accounts broken down by (sub)categories of the CPA
47 11 0
Number of loans and advances to customers broken down by (sub)categories of the CPA
47 12 0
Number of automatic teller machines (ATM) owned by credit institutions
47 13 0

## 3.8 Size class/Residence of parent enterprise/Category

Size class of balance sheet total
Code
> EUR 99 999 Mio
SC01
EUR 10 000-99 999 Mio
SC02
EUR 1 000-9 999 Mio
SC03
EUR 100-999 Mio
SC04
< EUR 100 Mio
SC05
Country of residence of the parent enterprise
Code
Parent enterprise situated in the home Member State
RE01
Parent enterprise situated in other countries
RE02
Category of credit institutions
Code
Licensed banks
CA01
Specialised credit granting institutions
CA02
Other credit institutions
CA03

## 3.9 Breakdown of products

Products
Code
Inter-industry deposit taking services
651211
Standardised deposit taking services
651212
Non-standardised deposit taking services
651213
Inter-industry credit granting services
651221
Consumer credit granting services
651222
Mortgage credit granting services
651223
Commercial credit granting services
651224
Other credit granting services n.e.c.
651225
Other monetary intermediation services n.e.c.
65123
Financial leasing services
6521
Inter-industry credit granting services
65221
Consumer credit granting services
65222
Mortgage credit granting services
65223
Commercial credit granting services
65224
Other credit granting services n.e.c.
65225
Investment banking services
65231
Other financial intermediation services n.e.c.
65232
Security brokerage services
67121
Fund management services
67122
Other services auxiliary to financial intermediation n.e.c.
6713
Brokerage services
6721
Other services auxiliary to insurance and pension funding n.e.c.
6722

## 3.10 Legal status/Geographical breakdown

Legal status
Code
Incorporated enterprises limited by shares
LS01
Cooperative enterprises
LS02
Public-law enterprises
LS03
Branches of enterprises with head office in non-EEA countries
LS04
Others
LS05
Countries and groups of countries
Code
Belgique/België
BEL
България
BGR
Danmark
DNK
Deutschland
DEU
Eλλαδα
GRC
España
ESP
France
FRA
Ireland
IRL
Italia
ITA
Luxembourg
LUX
Nederland
NLD
Österreich
AUT
Portugal
PRT
România
ROU
Suomi/Finland
FIN
Sverige
SWE
United Kingdom
GBR
Island
ISL
Liechtenstein
LIE
Norge
NOR
Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera
CHE
USA
USA
Japan
JPN
In the Member State of head office
MSHO
In other Member States
OMS
In other EEA countries
OEEA
In other third countries (rest of the world)
THCO

## 3.11 Data value

Monetary data is expressed in millions of national currency units or in euro (for countries members of the Euro-zone).
In order to be precise about the nature of the data, it is necessary to distinguish the following cases:
data equal to zero (coded ‘0’): real values of zero only (the phenomenon it describes does not exist in the country),
missing data (coded ‘m’): this is data which is currently missing but the Member State intends to supply when available,
data not available: This is data which is not collected in a Member State. In this case the corresponding record is not sent.
By default, if an entire dimension (a variable, a NUTS code etc.) is not collected then the corresponding records will not exist except for those which are missing because they form part of a regrouping of NACE codes. This is why it is important to distinguish data which is really missing by supplying a record (one per missing item) in which the data value is coded as ‘m’.

## 3.12 Quality flag

Data type
Flag
Revised data
R
Updated data
M
Provisional data
P
Revised data refers to data which are sent for a second (or more) time and are corrections of data which has been previously sent.
Updated data concerns data which was not previously available and was coded as missing in the data value field (see 3.11 above) but has since become available.
The flag indicating provisional data should be used in order to indicate that it is likely that the data being transmitted may be corrected.

## 3.13 Confidentiality flag

Member States are asked to clearly indicate confidential data using the flags listed below:
Countries which cannot send confidential data are asked to set the value to ‘x’ (see 3.11 above) and to indicate using a flag that the data is missing due to confidentiality.
Reason for confidentiality
Flag
Too few enterprises
A
One enterprise dominates the data
B
Two enterprises dominate the data
C
Confidential data due to secondary confidentiality
D

## 3.14 Dominance

A numeric value less than or equal to 100. This indicates the percentage dominance of one or two enterprises which dominate the data and make it confidential. The value is rounded to the nearest whole number: e.g. 90.3 becomes 90, 94.50 becomes 95. This field is blank for non-confidential data. This field is only used when the confidentiality flags B or C are used in the previous field.

## 3.15 Footnote

Free note on the data with a maximal length of 250 characters.

## 4 Electronic form

The data and metadata, supplied in conformance with this regulation shall be sent in electronic form from Competent National Authorities to Eurostat. Transmission shall conform to an appropriate interchange standard approved by the Statistical Programme Committee (SPC). Eurostat will make available detailed documentation in relation to approved standard(s) and will supply guidelines on how to implement this (these) standard(s) according to the requirements of this regulation.

## 5 Transitional arrangements

During a transitional period, the data may be sent as a flat file in ASCII format with each data set being one record having the semi-colon ‘;’ as the field seperator and the the carriage return character (ASCII hexadecimal code ‘0D’) and/or the linefeed character (ASCII hexadecimal code ‘0A’) as the record separator.

### Division 6: Examples of records

## Example 1:

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Series
Year
Territorial Unit
Economic activity
Measurement
Unit
Variable
Size class/Residence of parent enterprise/Category
Breakdown of products
Legal status/Geographical breakdown
Data value
Quality flag
Confidentiality flag
Dominance
6A
2001
BE
6512
NBR
UNIT
11110
87
Belgium declares in the series 6A (Annual enterprise statistics) for the reference year 2001, in NACE rev. 1 class 65.12: 87 enterprises. The data is non confidential.
6A; 2001; BE; 6512; NBR; UNIT; 11110; ; ; ; 87; ; ; ;

## Example 2:

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Series
Year
Territorial Unit
Economic activity
Measurement
Unit
Variable
Size class/Residence of parent enterprise/Category
Breakdown of products
Legal status/Geographical breakdown
Data value
Quality flag
Confidentiality flag
Dominance
6B
2001
DK
6512
NBR
UNIT
11111
LS02
25
Denmark declares in the serie 6B (Annual enterprise statistics broken down by legal status) for the reference year 2001, in NACE rev. 1 class 65.12: 25 enterprises with the legal status: co-operative enterprises. The data is non confidential.
6B; 2001; DK; 6512; NBR; UNIT; 11111; ; ; LS02; 25; ; ; ;

## Example 3:

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Series
Year
Territorial Unit
Economic activity
Measurement
Unit
Variable
Size class/Residence of parent enterprise/Category
Breakdown of products
Legal status/Geographical breakdown
Data value
Quality flag
Confidentiality flag
Dominance
6C
2001
PT
6512
EUR
MIO
43310
RE01
23567
P
A
Portugal declares in the series 6C (Annual enterprise statistics broken down according to the country of residence of the parent enterprise) for the reference year 2001, in NACE rev. 1 class 6512: a balance sheet total of EUR 23 567 Mio for credit institutions which parent enterprise is situated in the home Member State. The data is provisional as well as confidential because of too few enterprises.
6C; 2001; PT; 6512; EUR; MIO; 43310; RE01; ; ; 23567; P; A; ;

## Example 4:

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Series
Year
Territorial Unit
Economic activity
Measurement
Unit
Variable
Size class/Residence of parent enterprise/Category
Breakdown of products
Legal status/Geographical breakdown
Data value
Quality flag
Confidentiality flag
Dominance
6D
2001
ES
6512
NBR
UNIT
16111
CA01
130
Spain declares in the series 6D (Annual enterprise statistics broken down by category of credit institutions) for the reference year 2001, in NACE rev. 1 class 65.12: 130 persons employed in the category of licensed banks. The data is non confidential.
6D; 2001; ES; 6512; NBR; UNIT; 16111; CA01; ; ; 130; ; ; ;

## Example 5:

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Series
Year
Territorial Unit
Economic activity
Measurement
Unit
Variable
Size class/Residence of parent enterprise/Category
Breakdown of products
Legal status/Geographical breakdown
Data value
Quality flag
Confidentiality flag
Dominance
6E
2001
FI
6512
NBR
UNIT
11116
SC05
6
Finland declares in the series 6E (Annual enterprise statistics broken down by size class) for the reference year 2001, in NACE rev. 1 class 65.12: 6 enterprises with a balance sheet total in the size class of less than EUR 100 million. The data is non confidential.
6E; 2001; FI; 6512; NBR; UNIT; 11116; SC05; ; ; 6; ; ; ;

## Example 6:

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Series
Year
Territorial Unit
Economic activity
Measurement
Unit
Variable
Size class/Residence of parent enterprise/Category
Breakdown of products
Legal status/Geographical breakdown
Data value
Quality flag
Confidentiality flag
Dominance
6F
2001
UK
6512
NC
MIO
44130
651211
1489
United Kingdom declares in the series 6F (Annual enterprise statistics broken down by product) for the reference year 2001, in NACE rev. 1 class 65.12: commissions receivable of GBP 1 489 million in the product class ‘Inter-industry deposit taking services’. The data is non confidential.
6F; 2001; UK; 6512; NC; MIO; 44130; ; 651211; ;1489; ; ; ;

## Example 7:

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Series
Year
Territorial Unit
Economic activity
Measurement
Unit
Variable
Size class/Residence of parent enterprise/Category
Breakdown of products
Legal status/Geographical breakdown
Data value
Quality flag
Confidentiality flag
Dominance
6G
2001
FR
6512
NBR
UNIT
11510
ESP
5
France declares in the series 6G (Annual enterprise statistics by geographical breakdown) for the reference year 2001, in NACE rev. 1 class 65.12: 5 financial subsidiaries in Spain. The data is non confidential.
6G; 2001; FR; 6512; NBR; UNIT; 11510; ; ; ESP; 5; ; ; ;

## Example 8:

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Series
Year
Territorial Unit
Economic activity
Measurement
Unit
Variable
Size class/Residence of parent enterprise/Category
Breakdown of products
Legal status/Geographical breakdown
Data value
Quality flag
Confidentiality flag
Dominance
6H
2001
2IT51
6512
NBR
UNIT
11210
38
Italy declares in the series 6H (Annual regional statistics) for the reference year 2001, in NACE rev. 1 class 65.12: 38 local units in the region ‘Toscana’ (IT51). The data is non confidential.
6H; 2001; IT51; 6512; NBR; UNIT; 11210; ; ; ; 38; ; ; ;

## Annex III: TECHNICAL FORMAT FOR STATISTICS ON PENSION FUNDS

## 1 The form of the data

The data is sent as a set of records of which a large part describes the characteristics of the data (country, year, economic activity etc.). The data itself is a number which can be linked to flags and explanatory footnotes used for example to describe aggregations of NACE codes. Confidential data should be sent with the true value being recorded in the value field and a flag indicating the nature of the confidential data being added to the record.
In order to be precise about the nature of the data, it is necessary to distinguish the following special cases:
data equal to zero (coded ‘0’): real values of zero only (the phenomenon it describes does not exist in the country),
missing data (coded ‘m’): this is data which is currently missing but the Member State intends to supply when available,
data not available: this is data which is not collected in a Member State. In this case, the corresponding record is not sent.
By default, if an entire dimension (a variable, a NUTS code, a Size Class code etc.) is not collected then the corresponding records will not exist (except for those which are missing because they form part of a regrouping of NACE codes. This is why it is important to distinguish data which is really missing by supplying a record (one per missing item) in which the data value is coded as ‘m’, and data which is really equal to zero by supplying the corresponding records in which the data value is set to 0.

## 2 Data set structure

The data set shall consist of the following fields
NB:
A = Alphanumeric, N = Numeric
Field
Type
Maximum length
Values
1
Series
A
2
7A, 7B, 7C, 7D and 7E Alphanumeric code of the series (see list below)
2
Year
A
4
Year in four characters e.g. 2002
3
Territorial unit
A
6
Corresponds to the country code for national series or to the NUTS 99 code of the region for regional series: NUTS 99 is the new nomenclature put in place in December 1999
4
Economic activity
A
4
NACE rev. 1 code
5
Measurement
A
3
Variable — type of measurement —
6
Unit
A
4
Unit
7
Variable
A
5
Variable code. The codes laid down in Annex 7 of the SBS Regulation have 5 characters (see list below)
8
Size class
A
4
Code for the size class (see list below)
9
Currency breakdown
A
6
Corresponds to currency (see list below)
10
Geographical breakdown
Code for the geographical breakdown of the partner countries (see list below)
11
Data value
A
12
Numeric value of the data (negative values are preceded by a minus sign) expressed as a whole number without decimal places. An ‘M’ should be used if the data is not sent because it is missing
12
Quality flag
A
1
R: revised data, M: updated data, P: provisional data
13
Confidentiality flag
A
1
A, B, C, D: indicates that the data is confidential and the reason for that confidentiality (see list below). A blank space indicates non-confidential data
14
Dominance
N
3
A numeric value less than or equal to 100. This indicates the percentage dominance of one or two enterprises which dominate the data and make it confidential. The value is rounded to the nearest whole number: e.g. 90.3 becomes 90, 94.50 becomes 95 This field is blank for non-confidential data. This field is only used when the confidentiality flags B or C are used in the previous field
15
Footnote
A
250
Free note on the data

### Division 3: Description of the fields

## 3.1 Series

Series type
Code
Annual enterprise statistics
7A
Annual enterprise statistics broken down by size classes
7B
Annual enterprise statistics broken down by currencies
7C
Annual enterprise statistics by geographical breakdown
7D
Annual enterprise statistics on non-autonomous pension funds
7E

### Division 3.2: Year

## 3.3 Territorial unit

This code corresponds to the country for national series or to the region for the regional serie (serie 6H). It is based on the NUTS 99 code. For regions, two characters are added to the two characters for the country (see NUTS 99).
Country
Code
Belgium
BE
Bulgaria
BG
Denmark
DK
Germany
DE
Greece
GR
Spain
ES
France
FR
Ireland
IE
Italy
IT
Luxembourg
LU
The Netherlands
NL
Austria
AT
Portugal
PT
Romania
RO
Finland
FI
Sweden
SE
The United Kingdom
UK
Iceland
IS
Liechtenstein
LI
Norway
NO
Switzerland
CH

## 3.4 Economic activity

Economic activity title — NACE rev. 1 —
Code
Pension funding 6602
6602
Non-autonomous pension funds: Total sections C-K
CK
Non-autonomous pension funds: Section C: Mining and quarrying
C
Non-autonomous pension funds: Section D: Manufacturing
D
Non-autonomous pension funds: Section E: Electricity, gas and water supply
E
Non-autonomous pension funds: Section F: Construction
F
Non-autonomous pension funds: Section G: Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles, motorcycles and personal and household goods
G
Non-autonomous pension funds: Section H: Hotels and restaurants
H
Non-autonomous pension funds: Section I: Transport, storage and communication
I
Non-autonomous pension funds: Section J: Financial intermediation
J
Non-autonomous pension funds: Section K: Real estate, renting and business activities
K

## 3.5 Measurement

Measurement
Code
National currency
NC
Euro
EUR
Number
NBR

## 3.6 Unit

Unit
Code
Unit
UNIT
Thousands
1 000
Millions
MIO
Billions
BIO

## 3.7 Variable

Variable title
Code
Number of enterprises
11 11 0
Number of enterprises broken down by size of investments
11 11 8
Number of enterprises broken down by size classes of members
11 11 9
Number of enterprises with non-autonomous pension funds
11 15 0
Number of pension schemes
11 61 0
Accounting data: profit and loss (income and expenditure) account
Turnover
12 11 0
Pension contributions receivable from members
48 00 1
Pension contributions receivable from employers
48 00 2
Incoming transfers
48 00 3
Other pension contributions
48 00 4
Pension contributions to defined benefits schemes
48 00 5
Pension contributions to defined contributions schemes
48 00 6
Pension contributions to hybrid schemes
48 00 7
Investment income (PF)
48 01 0
Capital gains and losses
48 01 1
Insurance claims receivable
48 02 1
Other income (PF)
48 02 2
Production value
12 12 0
Value added at basic prices
12 14 0
Value added at factor cost
12 15 0
Total expenditure on pensions
48 03 0
Regular pensions payments
48 03 1
Pension payments of lump sums
48 03 2
Outgoing transfers
48 03 3
Net change in technical provisions (reserves)
48 04 0
Insurance premiums payable
48 05 0
Total operational expenses
48 06 0
Total purchases of goods and services
13 11 0
Personnel costs
13 31 0
Gross investment in tangible goods
15 11 0
All taxes
48 07 0
Turnover of non-autonomous pension funds
48 08 0
Balance sheet data: assets
Land and buildings (PF)
48 11 0
Investments in affiliated enterprises and participating interests (PF)
48 12 0
Shares and other variable-yield securities
48 13 0
Shares traded on a regulated market
48 13 1
Shares traded on a regulated market specialised in SMEs
48 13 2
Non-publicly traded shares
48 13 3
Other variable yield securities
48 13 4
Units in undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities
48 14 0
Debt securities and other fixed-income securities
48 15 0
Debt securities and other fixed-income securities issued by public administrations
48 15 1
Other debt securities and other fixed income securities
48 15 2
Participation in investment pools (PF)
48 16 0
Loans guaranteed by mortgages and other loans not covered elsewhere
48 17 0
Other investments
48 18 0
Total investments of pension funds
48 10 0
Total investments invested in ‘the sponsoring enterprise’
48 10 1
Total investments at market values
48 10 4
Other assets
48 20 0
Balance sheet data: liabilities
Capital and reserves
48 30 0
Net technical provisions (PF)
48 40 0
Other liabilities
48 50 0
Data on internationalisation
Geographical breakdown of turnover
48 61 0
Shares and other variable-yield securities broken down by location
48 62 0
Total investments broken down by location
48 63 0
Total investments broken down into euro and non-euro components
48 64 0
Data on employment
Number of persons employed
16 11 0
Residual data
Number of members
48 70 0
Number of members of defined benefits schemes
48 70 1
Number of members of defined contributions schemes
48 70 2
Number of members of hybrid schemes
48 70 3
Number of active members
48 70 4
Number of deferred members
48 70 5
Number of retired persons
48 70 6

## 3.8 Size classes

Size class of investments
Code
> EUR 5 000 Mio
SC11
EUR 2 501-5 000 Mio
SC12
EUR 501-2 500 Mio
SC13
EUR 50-500 Mio
SC14
< EUR 50 Mio
SC15
Size classes of members (Unit)
Code
> 100 000 members
SC21
10 001-100 000 members
SC22
1 001-10 000 members
SC23
101-1 000 members
SC24
50-100 members
SC25
< 50 members
SC26

## 3.9 Currency breakdown

Currency breakdown
Code
Euro
EURO
Others
OTH

## 3.10 Geographical breakdown

Groups of countries
Code
Home country
HOME
Other EU countries
OEU
Other EEA countries
OEEA
USA and Canada
US_CA
Japan
JPN
Rest of the world
THCO

## 3.11 Data value

Monetary data is expressed in millions of national currency units or in Euro (for countries members of the Euro-zone).
In order to be precise about the nature of the data, it is necessary to distinguish the following cases:
data equal to zero (coded ‘0’): real values of zero only (the phenomenon it describes does not exist in the country),
missing data (coded ‘m’): this is data which is currently missing but the Member State intends to supply when available,
data not available: This is data which is not collected in a Member State. In this case the corresponding record is not sent.
By default, if an entire dimension (a variable, a NUTS code etc.) is not collected then the corresponding records will not exist except for those which are missing because they form part of a regrouping of NACE codes. This is why it is important to distinguish data which is really missing by supplying a record (one per missing item) in which the data value is coded as ‘m’.

## 3.12 Quality flag

Data type
Flag
Revised data
R
Updated data
M
Provisional data
P
Revised data refers to data which are sent for a second (or more) time and are corrections of data which has been previously sent.
Updated data concerns data which was not previously available and was coded as missing in the data value field (see 3.11 above) but has since become available.
The flag indicating provisional data should be used in order to indicate that it is likely that the data being transmitted may be corrected.

## 3.13 Confidentiality flag

Member States are asked to clearly indicate confidential data using the flags listed below:
Countries which cannot send confidential data are asked to set the value to ‘x’ (see 3.11 above) and to indicate using a flag that the data is missing due to confidentiality.
Reason for confidentiality
Flag
Too few enterprises
A
One enterprise dominates the data
B
Two enterprises dominate the data
C
Confidential data due to secondary confidentiality
D

## 3.14 Dominance

A numeric value less than or equal to 100. This indicates the percentage dominance of one or two enterprises which dominate the data and make it confidential. The value is rounded to the nearest whole number: e.g. 90.3 becomes 90, 94.50 becomes 95. This field is blank for non confidential data. This field is only used when the confidentiality flags B or C are used in the previous field.

## 3.15 Footnote

Free note on the data with a maximal length of 250 characters.

## 4 Electronic form

The data and metadata, supplied in conformance with this regulation shall be sent in electronic form from Competent National Authorities to Eurostat. Transmission shall conform to an appropriate interchange standard approved by the Statistical Programme Committee (SPC). Eurostat will make available detailed documentation in relation to approved standard(s) and will supply guidelines on how to implement this (these) standard(s) according to the requirements of this regulation.

## 5 Transitional arrangements

During a transitional period, the data may be sent as a flat file in ASCII format with each data set being one record having the semi-colon ‘;’ as the field seperator and the the carriage return character (ASCII hexadecimal code ‘0D’) and/or the linefeed character (ASCII hexadecimal code ‘0A’) as the record separator.

### Division 6: Examples of records

## Example 1:

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Territorial Unit
Economic activity
Measurement
Unit
Variable
Size classes
Currency breakdown
Geographical breakdown
Data value
Quality flag
Confidentiality flag
Dominance
Footnote
7A
2002
BE
6602
NBR
UNIT
11110
120
Belgium declares in the series 7A (Annual enterprise statistics) for the reference year 2002, in NACE rev. 1 class 66.02 120 autonomous pension funds enterprises. The data is non confidential.
7A; 2002; BE; 6602; NBR; UNIT; 11110; ; ; ; 120; ; ; ;

## Example 2:

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Territorial Unit
Economic activity
Measurement
Unit
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Size classes
Currency breakdown
Geographical breakdown
Data value
Quality flag
Confidentiality flag
Dominance
Footnote
7B
2002
DK
6602
NBR
UNIT
11118
SC14
38
Denmark declares in the series 7B (Annual enterprise statistics broken down by size classes) for the reference year 2002, in NACE rev. 1 class 66.02: 38 autonomous pension funds which investments fall between EUR 50-500 million. The data is non confidential.
7B; 2002; DK; 6602; NBR; UNIT; 11118; SC14; ; ; 38; ; ; ;

## Example 3:

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Territorial Unit
Economic activity
Measurement
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Size classes
Currency breakdown
Geographical breakdown
Data value
Quality flag
Confidentiality flag
Dominance
Footnote
7C
2002
PT
6602
EUR
MIO
48640
USD
1008
Portugal declares in the series 7C (Annual enterprise statistics broken down by currencies) for the reference year 2002, in NACE rev. 1 class 66.02: investments of EUR 1 008 million which are broken down by USD. The data is non confidential.
7C; 2002; PT; 6602; EUR; MIO; 48640; ; USD; ; 1008; ; ; ;

## Example 4:

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Territorial Unit
Economic activity
Measurement
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Size classes
Currency breakdown
Geographical breakdown
Data value
Quality flag
Confidentiality flag
Dominance
Footnote
7D
2002
FI
6602
EUR
MIO
48610
OEU
12548
Finland declares in the series 7D (Annual enterprise statistics by geographical breakdown) for the reference year 2002, in NACE rev. 1 class 66.02: turnover of EUR 12 548 million which are declared in other EU countries. The data is non confidential.
7D; 2002; FI; 6602; EUR; MIO; 48610; ; ; OEU; 12548; ; ; ;

## Example 5:

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Territorial Unit
Economic activity
Measurement
Unit
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Size classes
Currency breakdown
Geographical breakdown
Data value
Quality flag
Confidentiality flag
Dominance
Footnote
7B
2002
ES
6602
NBR
UNIT
11119
SC21
M
Spain declares in the series 7B (Annual enterprise statistics broken down by size classes) for the reference year 2002, in NACE rev. 1 class 66.02: missing data of number of enterprises which fall under the size class > 100 000 members. This data is non confidential.
7B; 2002; ES; 6602; NBR; UNIT; 11119; SC21; ; ; M; ; ; ;

## Example 6:

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Territorial Unit
Economic activity
Measurement
Unit
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Size classes
Currency breakdown
Geographical breakdown
Data value
Quality flag
Confidentiality flag
Dominance
Footnote
7E
2002
BE
H
NBR
UNIT
11150
35
Belgium declares in the series 7E (Annual enterprise statistics on non-autonomous pension funds) for the reference year 2002, in NACE rev. 1 section H (Non-autonomous pension funds: Section H: Hotels and restaurants): 35 enterprises with non-autonomous pension funds. This data is non confidential.
7A; 2002; BE; H; NBR; UNIT; 11150; ; ; ; 35; ; ; ;

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2003/1668 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2003-1668
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