II
(Non-legislative acts)
REGULATIONS
COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 91/2010
of 2 February 2010
amending Regulation (EC) No 1982/2004 implementing Regulation (EC) No 638/2004 of the
European Parliament and of the Council on Community statistics relating to the trading of goods
between Member States, as regards the list of goods excluded from statistics, the communication of
information by the tax administration and quality assessment
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
Union,
Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 638/2004 of the European
Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 on
Community statistics relating to the trading of goods between
Member States and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No
3330/91 ( 1 ), and in particular Articles 3(5), 8(2) and 13(3)
thereof,
Whereas:
(1)
Regulation (EC) No 638/2004 was implemented by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1982/2004 ( 2 ).
(2)
Access by national authorities to data available on the
recapitulative VAT statements referred to in Article 6 of
Regulation (EC) No 1982/2004 should be extended to
ensure the quality of statistical data.
(3)
The modalities and structure of the quality report referred
to in Article 26 of Regulation (EC) No 1982/2004
should be amended in order to ensure an integrated
quality assurance framework in line with the European
Statistics Code of Practice ( 3 ).
(4)
The list in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1982/2004
laying down the goods excluded from statistics relating
to the trading of goods between Member States to be
transmitted to the Commission (Eurostat) should be
adapted to bring it more into line with international
recommendations adopted by the United Nations StatÂ
istical Commission and to clarify the scope of data
collected.
(5)
Regulation (EC) No 1982/2004 should therefore be
amended accordingly.
(6)
The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of the Committee for the
statistics on the trading of goo