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From · plenary report· 24 Oct 2025

A-10-2025-0207

on the Council position at first reading with a view to the adoption of a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on European statistics on population and housing, amending Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 and repealing Regulations (EC) No 763/2008 and (EU) No 1260/2013

To · adopted text· 24 Apr 2024

TA-9-2024-0361

Statistics on population and housing

These two texts have too little in common to compare paragraph by paragraph: they are different documents rather than versions of one (for example one group’s motion and the joint text that was adopted).

+292 added · −15 removed · 3 changed paragraphs, packaging included.

Part 6 of 6: Paragraphs 270–313

Added:4. Before adopting a delegated act, the Commission shall consult experts designated by each Member State in accordance with the principles laid down in the Interinstitutional Agreement of 13 April 2016 on Better Law-Making and shall keep the European Parliament informed about its preparatory work.

Added:5. As soon as it adopts a delegated act, the Commission shall notify it simultaneously to the European Parliament and to the Council.

Added:6. A delegated act adopted pursuant to Article 5(3), Article 6(6) or Article 7(2) shall enter into force only if no objection has been expressed either by the European Parliament or by the Council within a period of two months of notification of that act to the European Parliament and the Council or if, before the expiry of that period, the European Parliament and the Council have both informed the Commission that they will not object. That period shall be extended by two months at the initiative of the European Parliament or the Council.

Added:Article 18 Committee procedure

Added:1. The Commission shall be assisted by the European Statistical System Committee (ESSC) established by Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 223/2009. That committee shall be a committee within the meaning of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011.

Added:2. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5 of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 shall apply.

Added:Article 19 Derogations

Added:1. Where the application of this Regulation ▌ requires major adaptations to be made to a Member State’s national statistical system, the Commission may grant, by means of implementing acts, derogations to that Member State, for a maximum duration of seven years.

Added:1a. Where delegated or implementing acts adopted pursuant to this Regulation require major adaptations to be made to a Member State’s national statistical system, the Commission may grant, by means of implementing acts, derogations to that Member State for a maximum duration of three years.

Added:2. When granting derogations pursuant to paragraph 1 of this Article, the Commission shall take into account the comparability of Member States’ statistics and the timely calculation of the required representative and reliable European aggregates. When granting those derogations, the Commission shall also ensure that the requirements related to statistics, metadata and quality covered by this Regulation and previously covered by Regulation (EU) No 1260/2013 or by Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 are continued without interruption.

Added:3. The Member State shall submit a duly justified request for derogation to the Commission within two months of the date of the entry into force of the act concerned.

Added:4. The Commission shall adopt the implementing acts referred to in paragraphs 1, 1a and 3 of this Article in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 18(2).

Added:Article 20 Amendments to Regulation (EC) No 862/2007

Added:Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 is amended as follows:

Added:(1) the title is replaced by the following: ‘Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 of 11 July 2007 on European statistics on asylum and administrative and judicial procedures related to immigration legislation and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 311/76 on the compilation of statistics on foreign workers’;

Added:(2) in Article 1, points (a) and (b) are deleted;

Added:(3) in Article 2(1), points (a), (b), (c), (f) and (g) are deleted;

Added:(3a) in Article 2(1), point (d) is replaced by the following:

Added:“(d) ‘citizenship’ means citizenship as defined in Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) .../... of the European Parliament and of the Council*+”;

Added:(4) Article 3 is deleted;

Added:(5) the following article is inserted:

Added:“Article 9c

Added:Timely access to and reuse of administrative data

Added:1. In accordance with Article 17a of Regulation (EC) No 223/2009, national authorities in charge of administrative data sources relevant for the purposes of this Regulation shall allow the reuse of those data in time and subject to a frequency sufficient to produce and submit statistics within the deadlines and in accordance with the specific quality requirements according to this Regulation. The national statistical authorities and the national authorities in charge of the administrative records shall establish the necessary cooperation mechanisms for access to those records in a timely manner, free of charge.

Added:2. For the purposes of this Regulation, the Commission (Eurostat) shall be allowed, upon request, to access and reuse in a timely manner relevant data and metadata from databases and interoperability systems maintained by Union bodies and agencies, including under Regulations (EU) No 910/2014, (EU) 2018/1724 and statistical data stored in the central repository for reporting and statistics (CRRS). In particular, data from the interoperable Large Scale IT Systems (LSITs) in the area of freedom, security and justice shall be accessed by the Commission (Eurostat) from the CRRS in accordance with Regulations (EU) 2019/817 and (EU) 2019/818 and the Regulations establishing the systems whose statistical data are stored in CRRS. To that end, the Commission (Eurostat) shall further cooperate with the relevant Union bodies and agencies with a view to specifying the customised statistical data and metadata required, where possible under Union law, for European statistics on population and housing, the operational modalities for their provision and the necessary accompanying physical and logical safeguards.”;

Added:(6) the following article is inserted:

Added:“Article 10a

Added:Lists of countries and territories

Added:The lists of countries and territories referred to in Article 11 of Regulation (EU) .../... *+ shall be applied for the compilation of statistics under this Regulation to ensure comparability of country and territories specific details across European statistics. Member States shall apply these lists for the first time to compile statistics due under this Regulation starting with data transmissions for the reference year 2026.

Added:________

Added:* Regulation (EU) .../... of the European Parliament and of the Council on European statistics on population and housing, amending Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 and repealing Regulations (EC) No 763/2008 and (EU) No 1260/2013 (OJ ...).".

Added:Article 21 Repeal

Added:Regulations (EC) No 763/2008 and (EU) No 1260/2013 are repealed with effect from 1 January 2026 without prejudice to the obligations set out in those legal acts with regard to reference periods that fall, in whole or in part, before that date.

Added:References to the repealed Regulations shall be construed as references to this Regulation.

Added:Article 22 Entry into force and application

Added:This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Added:It shall apply from 1 January 2026.

Added:This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Added:Done at ...,

Added:For the European Parliament For the Council

Added:The President The President

Added:ANNEX

Added:Domains, topics and detailed topics with periodicity and reference time per detailed topic

Added:Legend