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Articles 17 and 18 shall be replaced by the following: ‘Article 17 Implementing measures The Commission shall determine the measures for implementing this Regulation, including the measures to accommodate economic and technical developments concerning the collection and statistical processing of data and the transmission of the variables. In doing so, consideration shall be given to the principle that the benefits of the measure must outweigh its cost, and to the principle that major additional resources are not involved either for Member States or for enterprises as compared with the original provisions of this Regulation. In particular, the measures for implementing this Regulation shall include: (a) the use of particular units (Article 2); (b) the updating of the list of variables (Article 3); (c) the definitions and the appropriate forms of the transmitted variables (Article 3); (d) the establishment of European sample schemes (Article 4); (e) the frequency of compilation of the statistics (Article 5); (f) the levels of breakdown and aggregation to be applied to the variables (Article 6); (g) the transmission deadlines (Article 8); (h) the criteria for the measurement of quality (Article 10); (i) the transition periods (Article 13(1)); (j) derogations granted during the transition periods (Article 13(2)); (k) the institution of pilot studies (Article 16); (l) the first base year to be applied for time series in NACE Rev. 2; (m) for time series prior to 2009, to be transmitted according to NACE Rev. 2, the level of detail, the form, the first reference period, and the reference period. The measures referred to in points (j) and (k) shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure referred to in Article 18(2). The measures referred to in points (a) to (i) and (l) and (m), designed to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation, inter alia, by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 18(3). Article 18 Committee procedure 1. The Commission shall be assisted by the Statistical Programme Committee established by Council Decision 89/382/EEC, Euratom OJ L 181, 28.6.1989, p. 47. . 2. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Articles 5 and 7 of Council Decision 1999/468/EC OJ L 184, 17.7.1999, p. 23.’; shall apply, having regard to the provisions of Article 8 thereof. The period laid down in Article 5(6) of Decision 1999/468/EC shall be set at three months. 3. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5a(1) to (4) and Article 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply, having regard to the provisions of Article 8 thereof.
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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-21 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.