Article 3

1. In accordance with the relevant provisions of the Treaty, the Council shall adopt a Community statistical programme which defines the approaches, the main fields and the objectives of the actions envisaged for a period not exceeding five years. The Community statistical programme shall constitute the framework for the production of all Community statistics. If necessary, it may be updated. The Commission shall prepare a report on the implementation of the programme at the end of the period covered by the programme. The Commission shall submit the guidelines for establishing the Community statistical programme for prior examination by the Statistical Programme Committee and, within the framework of their respective powers, by the European Advisory Committee on Statistical Information in the Economic and Social Spheres and the Committee on Monetary, Financial and Balance of Payments Statistics. 2. The Community statistical programme referred to in paragraph 1 shall be implemented by individual statistical actions. These actions shall be either: decided on by the Council in accordance with the appropriate Treaty provisions; or decided on by the Commission under the conditions laid down in Article 6 and in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 19; or decided on by means of agreement between the national authorities and the Community authority within their respective spheres of competence. 3. Each year, before the end of May, the Commission shall submit for examination by the Statistical Programme Committee its work programme for the following year. This programme shall indicate in particular: the actions which the Commission considers to have priority, bearing in mind both national and Community financial constraints, the procedures and any legal instruments envisaged by the Commission for the implementation of the programme. The Commission will take the utmost account of the comments of the Statistical Programme Committee. The Commission will take the action it considers most appropriate.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-07 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.