Division B Transmission of characteristics
United Kingdom
The Commission (Eurostat) may, with the explicit approval of the appropriate national authority and for statistical purposes only, transmit to the national central banks and the European Central Bank the following characteristics, including confidentiality flags, concerning multinational enterprise groups and their constituent units provided that, in the case of data transmitted to a national central bank, at least one unit of the group is located in the territory of that Member State.
| 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, electronic 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 | 1.7a | Reference to the register of intra-Union operators set up in accordance with 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 Statesf1, and reference to customs files or to the register of extra-Union operators | |
| Link with enterprise Group | 1.8 | Identity number of the truncated enterprise group (4.1), to which the unit belongs | |
| 1.9 | Date of association to the truncated group | ||
| 1.10 | Date of separation from the truncated group | ||
| Control of units | 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 | 1.14a | Conditional |
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| 1.14b | Conditional |
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| 1.15 | Conditional |
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| 1.16 | Conditional |
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| 3. ENTERPRISE | |||
| Identification characteristics | 3.1 | Identity number | |
| 3.2a | Name | ||
| 3.2b | Optional | Postal, electronic 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 | |
| 3.8 | Number of persons employed | ||
| 3.11 | Institutional sector and sub-sector according to European System of Accounts | ||
| Link with enterprise Group | 3.12 | Identity number of the truncated enterprise group (4.1) to which the enterprise belongs | |
| 4. ENTERPRISE GROUP | |||
| Identification characteristics | 4.1 | Identity number of the truncated group | |
| 4.2a | Name of the truncated group | ||
| 4.2b | Optional | Postal, electronic mail and website addresses of the truncated head office | |
| 4.3 | Part conditional | Identity number of the 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: 2. domestically controlled truncated group; 3. foreign controlled truncated group | ||
| Demographic characteristics | 4.5 | Date of commencement of the truncated enterprise group | |
| 4.6 | Date of cessation of the truncated enterprise group | ||
| Economic/Stratification characteristics | 4.7 | Principal activity code of the truncated group at NACE 2-digit level | |
| 4.9 | Number of persons employed in the truncated group | ||
| Identification characteristics | 4.11 | Identity number of the global group | |
| 4.12a | Name of the global group | ||
| 4.12b | Optional | Country of registration, postal, electronic 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 |
| 4.16 | Optional | Country of global decision centre | |
| 4.17 | Optional | Countries where enterprises or local units are located | |