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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-1013/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eur/2020/1013",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1013 of 20 July 2020 specifying the technical items of the data set, establishing the technical formats for transmission of information and specifying the detailed arrangements and content of the quality reports on the organisation of a sample survey in the use of information and communication technologies domain for reference year 2021 pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-1013",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1013\nof 20 July 2020\nspecifying the technical items of the data set, establishing the technical formats for transmission of information and specifying the detailed arrangements and content of the quality reports on the organisation of a sample survey in the use of information and communication technologies domain for reference year 2021 pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 of the European Parliament and of the Council\n(Text with EEA relevance)\nTHE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,\nHaving regard to Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 October 2019 establishing a common framework for European statistics relating to persons and households, based on data at individual level collected from samples, amending Regulations (EC) No 808/2004, (EC) No 452/2008 and (EC) No 1338/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council Regulation (EC) No 577/98, and in particular Article 7(1), Article 8(3) and Article 13(6) thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nIn order to ensure the accurate implementation of the sample survey in the use of information and communication technologies domain, the Commission should specify the technical items of the data set, which are the description of the variables, the precise characteristics of the statistical populations, the observations units and the rules for respondents.\n(2)\nTo facilitate the transmission of information from the Member States to the Commission (Eurostat), the technical formats covering concepts, processes, including data and metadata, shall be put in place for the transmission of information.\n(3)\nFor the purpose of assessing the quality of statistics to be transmitted for the domain use of information and communication technologies, the detailed arrangements for the quality reports shall be specified.\n(4)\nThe Member States and the Union institutions should use for the categories of the characteristics listed in the Annex of this Regulation, whenever appropriate, the statistical classifications for the territorial units, education, occupation and economic sector that are compatible with the NUTS, ISCED, ISCO and NACE classifications.\n(5)\nThe measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the European Statistical System Committee,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 261 I, 14.10.2019, p. 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 May 2003 on the establishment of a common classification of territorial units for statistics (NUTS) (OJ L 154, 21.6.2003, p. 1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "International Standard Classification of Education 2011, http://uis.unesco.org/sites/default/files/documents/international-standard-classification-of-education-isced-2011-en.pdf (available in English and French)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Commission Recommendation of 29 October 2009 on the use of the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO-08) (OJ L 292, 10.11.2009, p. 31)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 establishing the statistical classification of economic activities NACE Revision 2 and amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 3037/90 as well as certain EC Regulations on specific statistical domains (OJ L 393, 30.12.2006, p. 1)."
    }
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