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Regulation (EC) No 450/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 February 2003 concerning the labour cost indexLegal instrument | Regulation |
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Number legal act | Regulation 2003/450 |
Original proposal | COM(2001)418 ![]() |
CELEX number i | 32003R0450 |
Document | 27-02-2003 |
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Publication in Official Journal | 13-03-2003; Special edition in Bulgarian: Chapter 05 Volume 006,Special edition in Romanian: Chapter 05 Volume 006,Special edition in Estonian: Chapter 05 Volume 004,Special edition in Slovak: Chapter 05 Volume 004,Special edition in Maltese: Chapter 05 Volume 004,Special edition in Hungarian: Chapter 05 Volume 004,Special edition in Polish: Chapter 05 Volume 004,Special edition in Czech: Chapter 05 Volume 004,Special edition in Latvian: Chapter 05 Volume 004,Special edition in Slovenian: Chapter 05 Volume 004,Special edition in Croatian: Chapter 05 Volume 006,Special edition in Lithuanian: Chapter 05 Volume 004,OJ L 69, 13.3.2003 |
Effect | 02-04-2003; Entry into force Date pub. + 20 See 12002E254.1 |
End of validity | 31-12-9999 |
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Regulation (EC) No 450/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 February 2003 concerning the labour cost index (Text with EEA relevance)
Official Journal L 069 , 13/03/2003 P. 0001 - 0005
Regulation (EC) No 450/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council
of 27 February 2003
concerning the labour cost index
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 285(1) thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission(1),
Having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee(2),
Having regard to the opinion of the European Central Bank(3),
Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty(4),
Whereas:
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(1)A range of statistics, of which labour cost indices form an essential part, is relevant for an understanding of the inflationary process and the dynamics of the labour market.
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(2)The Community, and particularly its economic, employment and monetary authorities, need to have regular and timely labour cost indices for the purpose of monitoring changes in labour costs.
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(3)The Action Plan on Economic and Monetary Union statistical requirements, produced by the European Commission (Eurostat) in close collaboration with the European Central Bank, identifies as a priority the development of a legal basis covering short-term labour cost statistics.
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(4)The benefits of collecting, at Community level, complete data on all segments of the economy should be balanced against the reporting possibilities and the response burden on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
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(5)The Regulation is in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty. The creation of common statistical standards for labour cost indices can only be achieved on the basis of a Community legal act because only the Commission can coordinate the necessary harmonisation of statistical information at Community level, while the collection of data and compilation of comparable labour cost indices can be organised by the Member States.
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(6)Council Regulation (EC) No 322/97 of 17 February 1997 on Community statistics(5) provides the general framework for the production of labour cost indices under this Regulation.
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(7)The measures necessary for the implementation of this Regulation should be adopted in accordance with Council Decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission(6).
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(8)The Statistical Programme Committee (SPC), established by Council Decision 89/382/EEC, Euratom(7), has been consulted in accordance with Article 3 of that Decision,
HAVE ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Objective
The objective of this Regulation is to establish a common framework for the production, transmission and evaluation of comparable labour cost indices in the Community. Member States shall produce labour cost indices for the economic activities defined in Article 4.
Article 2
Definitions
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1.The labour cost index (LCI) is defined as the Laspeyres index of labour costs per hour worked, chain linked annually and based upon a fixed structure of economic activity at NACE Rev.1 section level, where NACE Rev.1 is the classification established by Council Regulation (EEC) No 3037/90 of 9 October 1990 on the statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community(8). Further disaggregations of NACE Rev.1 sections, to be included in the fixed structure, shall be defined in accordance with Article 4(1). The formula to be used for the calculation of the LCI is defined in the Annex to this Regulation.
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2.The labour costs are the total...
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