What changed between the adopted text of 24 Apr 2024 and the adopted text of 13 Nov 2025

Removed:1. The Commission (Eurostat) shall, where necessary and appropriate for the purposes of this Regulation, launch pilot and feasibility studies that aim to:

Removed:(a) assess the availability of data sources and their quality, including of publicly and privately held data in Member States and at Union level;

Removed:(b) develop and assess the feasibility of implementing new ▌ detailed topics, statistical units, variables and their breakdowns;

Removed:(ba) assess the availability of data sources and enhancing methods for providing statistics on the disability of persons and testing disaggregating statistics, including their comparability, in accordance with national law and practice on data protection and disclosure control;

Removed:(c) develop new methodologies and statistical techniques to reinforce quality and enhance information about hard-to-reach populations;

Removed:(d) reduce discrepancies in data of migration flows and ensuring their better comparability;

Removed:(da) reduce possible undercounting or double counting of people;

Removed:(e) test and assess the infrastructure for and fitness of relevant privacy enhancing technologies for secure data sharing within the ESS in accordance with Article 13(4).

Removed:2. Member States may participate in those studies but shall, together with the Commission (Eurostat), ensure the representativeness of those studies at Union level.

Removed:3. The results of those studies shall be evaluated by the Commission (Eurostat) in cooperation with Member States. The Commission (Eurostat) shall prepare in cooperation with the Member States reports on the findings of those studies.

Removed:Article 15 Financing

Removed:1. As regards the implementation of this Regulation, financial contribution shall be made available from the Single Market Programme established by Regulation (EU) 2021/690 , in accordance with Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046, to the national statistical authorities referred to in Article 5(2) of Regulation (EC) No 223/2009, for:

Removed:(a) adaptations of infrastructure and training in the national statistical system necessary for the development and implementation of new or enhanced data sources, methodologies, data sharing, statistical units, topics, detailed topics, variables and their breakdowns;

Removed:(aa) the preparation and implementation of ad-hoc data collection as referred to in Article 7;

Removed:(b) the participation of the Member States in representative pilot and feasibility studies referred to in Article 14.

Removed:1a. The amount of the Union financial contribution made available pursuant to this Article shall be established in accordance with the rules of the Single Market Programme as part of the annual budgetary procedure, subject to the availability of funding.

Removed:In addition, national statistical authorities as referred to in Article 5(2) of Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 may apply for support from other applicable financial programmes of the European Union in accordance with the rules of such programmes. Member States may also apply for support from the Technical Support Instrument to improve the quality of statistics and to develop methodologies according to the requirements of this Regulation in accordance with the rules of the Technical Support Instrument and its objective to foster the production, provision and quality monitoring of data and statistics.

Removed:2. The Union financial contribution shall not exceed 90% of the eligible costs.

Removed:Article 16 Protection of the financial interests of the Union

Removed:Where a third country participates in the actions financed under this Regulation by means of a decision adopted pursuant to an international agreement or on the basis of any other legal instrument, the third country shall grant the necessary rights and access required for the authorising officer responsible, the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF), the Court of Auditors and the EPPO to comprehensively exercise their respective competences. In the case of OLAF, such rights shall include the right to carry out investigations, including on-the-spot checks and inspections, pursuant to Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 883/2013.

Removed:Article 17 Exercise of the delegation

Removed:1. The power to adopt delegated acts is conferred on the Commission subject to the conditions laid down in this Article.

Removed:2. The power to adopt delegated acts referred to in Article 5(3), Article 6(6) and Article 7(2) shall be conferred on the Commission for an indeterminate period of time from [OJ: please insert the date of entry into force of this Regulation].

Removed:3. The delegation of power referred to in Article 5(3), Article 6(6) and Article 7(2) may be revoked at any time by the European Parliament or by the Council. A decision to revoke shall put an end to the delegation of the power specified in that decision. It shall take effect on the day following the publication of the decision in the Official Journal of the European Union or at a later date specified therein. It shall not affect the validity of any delegated acts already in force.

Removed: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.

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

Removed: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.

Removed:Article 18 Committee procedure

Removed: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.

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

Removed:Article 19 Derogations

Removed: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.

Removed: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.

Removed: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.

Removed: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.

Removed: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).

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

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

Removed:(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’;

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

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

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

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

Removed:(4) Article 3 is deleted;

Removed:(5) the following article is inserted:

Removed:“Article 9c

Removed:Timely access to and reuse of administrative data

Removed: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.

Removed: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.”;

Removed:(6) the following article is inserted:

Removed:“Article 10a

Removed:Lists of countries and territories

Removed: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.

Removed:________

Removed:* 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 ...).".

Removed:Article 21 Repeal

Removed: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.

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

Removed:Article 22 Entry into force and application

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