# Commission Regulation (EU) No 1097/2010 of 26 November 2010 implementing Regulation (EC) No 177/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a common framework for business registers for statistical purposes, as regards the exchange of confidential data between the Commission (Eurostat) and central banks (Text with EEA relevance), Division B: Transmission of characteristics

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

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
OJ L 102, 7.4.2004, p. 1.
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 States, 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
(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
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

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2010/1097/annex/division/B (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2010-1097/annex/division-B
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