OECD Joint ITS and TIS Session
10. d) Globalisation projects at Eurostat
STD/NAES/TASS/ITS(2007)19
Michaela Grell – Unit G1 – SBS
Michaela.Grell@ec.europa.eu
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FATS – Foreign AffiliaTes Statistics
 FATS-Regulation (adopted 20 June 2007) covering inward
and outward FATS
 Mandatory data collection from reference year 2007
onwards
 Voluntary data collection reference years 1996-2006
 FATS-Recommendations Manual (published July 2007)
 Consistency as much as possible with HEGI and MSITS
 Pilot studies testing the feasibility of additional data
requirements: results in 2009 / 2010
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FATS – Pilot studies
 Inward FATS pilot studies:
– Total and intra-group imports and exports, broken down by goods
and services (11)
– Size class breakdown (5)
– NACE sections M, N and O (3)
– R&D variables for service activities (3)
 Outward FATS pilot study:
– Total imports and exports, broken down by goods and services (12)
– Intra-group imports and exports, broken down by goods and
services (11)
– personnel costs (13), value added at factor costs (11), gross
investment in tangible goods (12), other variables (2)
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FATS-pilot: Definition of exports and imports
According to ESA95/SNA93:
 Exports and imports of goods and services:
transactions from residents to non-residents or vice
versa
 Goods: change of ownership
 Services: Services rendered
Definitions apply for inward and outward FATS, therefore:
 Inward FATS: residents  foreign-controlled affiliates
located in (data-) compiling country
 Outward FATS: residents  foreign-controlled affiliate
located in host country
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FATS-pilot: Definition of intra-group exports and imports
According to ESA95/SNA93:
 Subset of total intra-group exports and imports
 Intra-group exports and imports: all trade transactions
between foreign affiliates, the ultimate controlling unit and
all non-resident affiliates controlled by the ultimate
controlling unit
 Not included: trade partners in the same country as the
foreign affiliate in question
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FATS-pilot: Valuation of trade variables
 Goods: f.o.b. at the border of the exporting country
 Services: Market prices according to MSITS
Possible limitations in comparability to BoP and Trade
statistics:
 Legal constraints with forbid to use BoP and Trade data,
e.g. confidentiality
 SBS-Variables can be used, but estimation of f.o.b. and
market prices needed:
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exports: turnover
imports: total purchases of goods and services
 Breakdown by industrial activities (BoP and FATS) vs.
breakdown by products (Trade)
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FATS-pilot: Relevant trade transactions
Example for inward FATS
Import and Export =
Direction of control =
MS4
4
EU
MS2
1
2
MS1
5
Z
3
MS3
X
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FATS-pilot: Relevant trade transactions
Example for outward FATS
Import and Export =
MS4
Direction of control =
MS3
6
W
3
MS1
2
EU
4
1
X
Y
5
MS2
7
Z
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International Sourcing
 Provisions of services outside the EU
 Aim of the project: Factors driving international sourcing of
goods and services, e.g.
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impact on the competitiveness of the enterprises
motivations
benefits
barriers
consequences for employment
 relocation of domestic (or domestically sourced)
production to producers located abroad
 14 Member States participating, results: mid-2008
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EuroGroups Register
 New Business Register Regulation in progress: aims at
including recording of enterprise groups as well as the exchange
of data on MNEs and their constituent units between Member
States and Eurostat for statistical purposes
 The exchange of data implies the creation of a Community
register of MNEs: EuroGroups register
 Feasibility study 2006: 4 National Statistical Institutes, 600
MNEs, over 80,000 units
 Data from private sources, consolidated at Eurostat and
checked by Member States
 Implementation planned 2007-2009.
 Ultimate aim: cover all MNEs which operate in Europe
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Modernisation of European Enterprise and Trade
Statistics (MEETS)
 provides financing for the development of enterprise and
trade statistics in the years 2008 until 2013
 Legal basis in progress
 Reaction to changes in world economy combined with
reduction of administrative burden on businesses
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Main objectives of MEETS
1. Identification of new areas and areas of lesser importance
 One priority is globalisation (seminar, task force, grants)
2. Streamlining of all statistics related to business:
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integration of concepts and methods in business statistics
focus on European perspective
co-ordination of the legal acts
harmonisation of the methodologies
work on the further integration
linking of statistical classifications
linking of business registers and related sources,
inclusion of MNEs into the business register
set up of the reporting on MNEs
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Main objectives of MEETS
3. Integration of data collection and treatment
 single system or micro-data linking
 use of administrative data
 ensure that the data that still needs to be collected can be
obtained easily from the company accounts.
 Development of standard estimation techniques
4. Simplifications to the Intrastat system:
 thresholds, ICT improvements, nomenclatures etc.
 Investigation of a single flow system
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Thank you very much for your
attention!
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