Article 6 Quality standards and reports

Member States shall take all measures necessary to ensure the quality of the business registers.

Member States shall provide the Commission (Eurostat), on its request, with a report on the quality of the business registers (hereinafter referred to as quality reports).

The measures relating to common quality standards as well as the content and periodicity of the quality reports, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 16(3), and taking into account the cost of compiling the data.

Member States shall inform the Commission (Eurostat) of major methodological or other changes that would influence the quality of the business registers as soon as they become known and not later than six months after any such change enters into force.

The Commission shall submit a report to the European Parliament and the Council on the implementation of this Regulation, addressing in particular the cost of the statistical system, the burden on business and the benefits.