# Commission Regulation (EC) No 1982/2004 of 18 November 2004 implementing Regulation (EC) No 638/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on Community statistics relating to the trading of goods between Member States and repealing Commission Regulations (EC) No 1901/2000 and (EEC) No 3590/92, Article 13a: Compilation of statistics on trade by business characteristics

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. National authorities shall compile annual statistics on trade by business characteristics.
2. The statistical units shall be enterprises as defined in the Annex to Council Regulation (EEC) No 696/93.
3. Statistical units are constructed by linking the identification number allocated to the party responsible for providing information pursuant to Article 9(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 638/2004 with the legal unit of the Business Register in accordance with the variable 1.7a referred to in the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 177/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
4. The following characteristics shall be compiled:
(a) trade flow;
(b) statistical value;
(c) partner Member State;
(d) commodity code, according to the section or two-digit level as defined in the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 451/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
(e) number of enterprises;
(f) activity carried out by the enterprise according to the section or two-digit level of the statistical classification of economic activity (NACE) as laid down in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
(g) size class, measured in terms of the number of employees according to the definitions of characteristics for structural business statistics as laid down in Annex I to Commission Regulation (EC) No 250/2009.
5. The following datasets shall be compiled:
(a) matching rates between trade and business registers;
(b) trade by activity and enterprise size class;
(c) share of largest enterprises in terms of value of trade by activity;
(d) trade by partner Member State and activity;
(e) trade by number of partner Member States and activity;
(f) trade by commodity and activity.
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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2004/1982/article/13a (the official version)
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