# Regulation (EC) No 177/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 February 2008 establishing a common framework for business registers for statistical purposes and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 2186/93, Annex

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

The business registers shall contain the following information by unit. The information does not have to be separately stored for each unit, if it can be derived from (an)other unit(s).
Unmarked items are mandatory, items marked ‘conditional’ are mandatory if available in the Member State and items marked ‘optional’ are recommended.
Regulation (EC) No 638/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 on Community statistics relating to the trading of goods between Member States (OJ L 102, 7.4.2004, p. 1).
1. LEGAL UNIT
IDENTIFICATION CHARACTERISTICS
1.1.
Identity number
1.2a.
Name
1.2b.
Address (including postcode) at the most detailed level
1.2c.
Optional
Telephone and fax numbers, e-mail address, and information to permit electronic collection of data
1.3.
Value Added Tax (VAT) registration number or, failing that, other administrative identity number
DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS
1.4.
Date of incorporation for legal persons or date of official recognition as an economic operator for natural persons
1.5.
Date on which the legal unit ceased to be part of an enterprise (as identified in 3.3)
ECONOMIC/ STRATIFICATION CHARACTERISTICS
1.6.
Legal form
LINKS WITH OTHER REGISTERS
Reference to associated registers, in which the legal unit is recorded and which contain information that can be used for statistical purposes
1.7a.
Reference to the register of intra-Community operators set up in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 638/2004, and Reference to customs files or to the register of extra-Community operators
1.7b.
Optional
Reference to balance sheet data (for units required to publish accounts), and Reference to the balance of payments register or foreign direct investment register, and Reference to the farm register
Additional characteristics for legal units which are part of enterprises belonging to an enterprise group:
LINK WITH ENTERPRISE GROUP
1.8.
Identity number of the all-resident/truncated enterprise group (4.1), to which the unit belongs
1.9.
Date of association to the all-resident/truncated group
1.10.
Date of separation from the all-resident/truncated group
CONTROL OF UNITS
The resident control links can be recorded either top-down (1.11a) or bottom-up (1.11b). Only the first level of control, direct or indirect, is recorded for each unit (the whole chain of control can be obtained by combining these).
1.11a.
Identity number(s) of resident legal unit(s), which are controlled by the legal unit
1.11b.
Identity number of the resident legal unit, which controls the legal unit
1.12a.
Country(ies) of registration, and identity number(s) or name(s) and address(es) of the non-resident legal unit(s), which are controlled by the legal unit
1.12b.
Conditional
VAT number(s) of non-resident legal unit(s), which are controlled by the legal unit
1.13a.
Country of registration, and identity number or name and address of the non-resident legal unit, which controls the legal unit
1.13b.
Conditional
VAT number of the non-resident legal unit, which controls the legal unit
OWNERSHIP OF UNITS
Conditional
The resident ownership can be recorded either top-down (1.14a) or bottom-up (1.14b).
The recording of the information and the threshold used for the shareholding are subject to the availability of this information in the administrative sources. The recommended threshold is 10 % or more of direct ownership.
1.14a.
Conditional
(a) Identity number(s), and
(b) shares (%)
of resident legal unit(s) owned by the legal unit
1.14b.
Conditional
(a) Identity number(s), and
(b) shares (%)
of resident legal unit(s), which own(s) the legal unit
1.15.
Conditional
(a) Country(ies) of registration, and
(b) identity number(s) or, name(s), address(es), and VAT number(s), and
(c) shares (%)
of non-resident legal unit(s) owned by the legal unit
1.16.
Conditional
(a) Country(ies) of registration, and
(b) identity number(s) or, name(s), address(es), and VAT number(s), and
(c) shares (%)
of non-resident legal unit(s), which own(s) the legal unit
2.
LOCAL UNIT
IDENTIFICATION CHARACTERISTICS
2.1.
Identity number
2.2a.
Name
2.2b.
Address (including postcode) at the most detailed level
2.2c.
Optional
Telephone and fax numbers, e-mail address, and information to permit electronic collection of data
2.3.
Identity number of the enterprise (3.1), to which the local unit belongs
DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS
2.4.
Date of commencement of activities
2.5.
Date of final cessation of activities
ECONOMIC/ STRATIFICATION CHARACTERISTICS
2.6.
Principal activity code at NACE 4-digit level
2.7.
Conditional
Secondary activities, if any, at NACE 4-digit level; this point concerns only local units which are the subject of surveys
2.8.
Optional
Activity carried out in the local unit constituting an ancillary activity of the enterprise to which it belongs (Yes/No)
2.9.
Number of persons employed
2.10a.
Number of employees
2.10b.
Optional
Number of employees in full-time equivalents
2.11.
Geographical location code
LINKS WITH OTHER REGISTERS
2.12.
Conditional
Reference to associated registers, in which the local unit appears and which contain information which can be used for statistical purposes (if such associated registers exist)
3.
ENTERPRISE
IDENTIFICATION CHARACTERISTICS
3.1.
Identity number
3.2a.
Name
3.2b.
Optional
Postal, e-mail and website addresses
3.3.
Identity number(s) of the legal unit(s) of which the enterprise consist(s)
DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS
3.4.
Date of commencement of activities
3.5.
Date of final cessation of activities
ECONOMIC/ STRATIFICATION CHARACTERISTICS
3.6.
Principal activity code at NACE 4-digit level
3.7.
Conditional
Secondary activities, if any, at NACE 4-digit level; this point concerns only enterprises which are the subject of surveys
3.8.
Number of persons employed
3.9a.
Number of employees
3.9b.
Optional
Number of employees in full-time equivalents
3.10a.
Turnover save as provided in 3.10b
3.10b.
Optional
Turnover for agriculture, hunting and forestry, fishing, and public administration and defence, compulsory social security, private households with employed persons and extra-territorial organisations
3.11.
Institutional sector and sub-sector according to European System of Accounts
Additional characteristics for enterprises belonging to an enterprise group:
LINK WITH ENTERPRISE GROUP
3.12.
Identity number of the all-resident/truncated enterprise group (4.1), to which the enterprise belongs
4.
ENTERPRISE GROUP
IDENTIFICATION CHARACTERISTICS
4.1.
Identity number of the all-resident/truncated group
4.2a.
Name of the all-resident/truncated group
4.2b.
Optional
Postal, e-mail and website addresses of the resident/truncated head office
4.3.
Part conditional
Identity number of the all-resident/truncated group head (equals the identity number of the legal unit, which is the resident group head).
Conditional if the controlling unit is a natural person, who is not an economic operator, recording is subject to the availability of this information in the administrative sources
4.4.
Type of enterprise group:
1.. all-resident group;
2.. domestically controlled truncated group;
3.. foreign controlled truncated group
DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS
4.5.
Date of commencement of the all-resident/truncated enterprise group
4.6.
Date of cessation of the all-resident/truncated enterprise group
ECONOMIC/STRATIFICATION CHARACTERISTICS
4.7.
Principal activity code of the all-resident/truncated group at NACE 2-digit level
4.8.
Optional
Secondary activities of the all-resident/truncated group at NACE 2-digit level
4.9.
Number of persons employed in the all-resident/truncated group
4.10.
Optional
Consolidated turnover
Additional characteristics for multinational enterprise groups (types 2 and 3 in 4.4):
The recording of variables 4.11 and 4.12a is optional until the transmission of information on multinational groups, as provided for in Article 11, has been established.
IDENTIFICATION CHARACTERISTICS
4.11.
Identity number of the global group
4.12a.
Name of the global group
4.12b.
Optional
Country of registration, postal, e-mail and website addresses of the global head office
4.13a.
Identity number of the global group head, if the group head is resident (equals the identity number of the legal unit, which is the group head). If the global group head is non-resident, its country of registration.
4.13b.
Optional
Global group head identity number or name and address, if non-resident
ECONOMIC/STRATIFICATION CHARACTERISTICS
4.14.
Optional
Number of persons employed globally
4.15.
Optional
Consolidated global turnover
4.16.
Optional
Country of global decision centre
4.17.
Optional
Countries where enterprises or local units are located

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2008/177/annex (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-177/annex
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