# 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, Article 3: Scope

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

1. In accordance with the definitions given in Article 2 and subject to the limitations specified in this Article, registers shall be compiled of:
(a) all enterprises carrying on economic activities contributing to the gross domestic product (GDP), and their local units;
(b) the legal units of which those enterprises consist;
(c) truncated enterprise groups and multinational enterprise groups; and
(d) all-resident enterprise groups.
2. The requirement in paragraph 1 shall not, however, apply to households insofar as the goods and services they produce are for their own consumption, or involve the letting of own property.
3. Local units not constituting separate legal entities (branches), which are dependent on foreign enterprises, and classified as quasi-corporations in accordance with the European System of Accounts 1995 set up by Council Regulation (EC) No 2223/96 of 25 June 1996 on the European system of national and regional accounts in the Community and the United Nation's 1993 System of National Accounts, shall be deemed to be enterprises for the purposes of the business registers.
4. Enterprise groups can be identified through the links of control between their legal units. In order to delineate enterprise groups, the definition of control set out in point 2.26 of Annex A to Regulation (EC) No 2223/96 shall be used.
5. This Regulation shall apply only to units which, wholly or partially, exercise an economic activity. Any activity comprising the offer of goods and services on a given market shall be regarded as an economic activity. In addition, non-market services contributing to the GDP, as well as direct and indirect holdings of active legal units shall be regarded as economic activities for the purposes of business registers. Economically inactive legal units are part of an enterprise only in combination with economically active legal units.
6. The measures designed to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation concerning the extent to which enterprises with less than half a person employed and all-resident enterprise groups of no statistical importance to the Member States are to be included in the registers, and the definition of units consistent with those for agricultural statistics, shall be decided in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 16(3).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2008/177/article/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-177/article-3
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