LegalizeCommission Regulation (EC) No 1227/1999 of 28 May 1999 concerning the technical format for the transmission of insurance services statistics (Text with EEA relevance)
Article 1
The technical format referred to in Article 9 of Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 is defined in the Annex to this Regulation.
Article 2
Member States shall apply this format for the data concerning the 1996 reference year and subsequent years.
Article 3
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
ANNEX
1. The form of the data
The data is sent as a set of records of which a large part describes the characteristics of the data (country, year, economic activity, etc.). The data itself is a number which can be linked to flags and explanatory footnotes used for example to describe aggregations of NACE codes. Confidential data should be sent with the true value being recorded in the value field and a flag indicating the nature of the confidential data being added to the record.
In order to be precise about the nature of the data, it is necessary to distinguish the following special cases:
— data equal to zero (coded ‘0’) : real values of zero only,
— confidential data (coded ‘x’) : indicates data which the Member State does not transmit to Eurostat because the data is confidential,
— missing data (coded ‘m’) : this is data which is currently missing but the Member State intends to supply when available,
— data not available : this is data which is not collected in a Member State. In this case the corresponding record is not sent.
By default, if an entire dimension (a variable, a NUTS code, a NACE code, etc.) is not collected then the corresponding records will not exist except for those which are missing because they form part of a regrouping of NACE codes. This is why it is important to distinguish data which is really missing by supplying a record (one per missing item) in which the data value is coded as ‘m’, and data which is really equal to zero by supplying the corresponding records in which the data value is set to 0.
2. Record structure
| Field | Type | Maximum length | Values | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Series | A | 2 | 5A, 5B, 5C, etc. Alphanumeric code of the series (see list below) |
| 2 | Year | A | 4 | Year in four characters, e. g. 1996 |
| 3 | Territorial unit | A | 2 | Corresponds to the country code. NUTS 95 is the new nomenclature put in place in June 95 |
| 4 | Economic activity | A | 4 | NACE Rev. 1 code |
| 5 | Measurement | A | 3 | Variable — type of measurement |
| 6 | Unit | A | 4 | Unit |
| 7 | Variable | A | 5 | Variable code. The codes laid down in Annex 5 to the SBS Regulation have 5 characters (see list below) |
| 8 | Type of insurance enterprise/business | A | 1 | Code for the type of insurance enterprise or insurance business (see list below) |
| 9 | Size class | A | 4 | Code for the size class (see list below) |
| Residence of parent enterprise | A | 4 | Code for the country of residence of the parent enterprise (see list below) | |
| 10 | Breakdown of products | A | 6 | Corresponds to the classification of products according to activities code (see list below) |
| 11 | Legal status | A | 4 | Code for the legal status of the enterprise (see list below) |
| Geographical breakdown | A | 4 | Code for the geographical breakdown of the partner countries (see list below) | |
| 12 | Data value | A | 12 | Numeric value of the data (negative values are preceded by a minus sign) expressed as a whole number without decimal places. An ‘x’ should be used if the data is not sent to Eurostat because the data is confidential and an ‘m’ should be used if the data is not sent because it is missing |
| 13 | Quality flag | A | 1 | R: revised data, M: updated data P: provisional data |
| 14 | Confidentiality flag | A | 1 | A, B, C, D: indicates that the data is confidential and the reason for that confidentiality (see list below). A blank space indicates non-confidential data |
| 15 | Dominance | N | 3 | A numeric value less than or equal to 100. This indicates the percentage dominance of one or two enterprises which dominate the data and make it confidential. The value is rounded to the nearest whole number: e.g 90,3 becomes 90, 94,50 becomes 95. This field is blank for non-confidential data. This field is only used when the confidentiality flags B or C are used in the previous field |
| 16 | List | A | 1 | Code corresponding to the list to which the variable — characteristic — belongs |
| 17 | Footnote | A | 250 | Free note on the data |
| NB: A = Alphanumeric, N = Numeric. |
This format may be converted into a fixed format by using the maximum length of each field and right justifying the contents of each field preceded by blanks.
3. Description of the fields
3.1. Series
| Series type | Code |
|---|---|
| Annual enterprise statistics | 5A |
| Annual enterprise statistics broken down by legal status | 5B |
| Annual enterprise statistics broken down according to the country of residence of the parent enterprise | 5C |
| Annual enterprise statistics broken down by size class | 5D |
| Annual enterprise statistics broken down by product | 5E |
| Annual enterprise statistics by geographical breakdown | 5F |
3.2. Year
3.3. Territorial unit
This code corresponds to the country for national series
| Country name | Code |
|---|---|
| Belgium | BE |
| Bulgaria | BG |
| Czech Republic | CZ |
| Denmark | DK |
| Germany | DE |
| Estonia | EE |
| Greece | GR |
| Spain | ES |
| France | FR |
| Ireland | IE |
| Italy | IT |
| Cyprus | CY |
| Latvia | LV |
| Lithuania | LT |
| Luxembourg | LU |
| Hungary | HU |
| Malta | MT |
| Netherlands | NL |
| Austria | AT |
| Poland | PL |
| Portugal | PT |
| Romania | RO |
| Slovenia | SI |
| Slovakia | SK |
| Finland | FI |
| Sweden | SE |
| United Kingdom | UK |
| Iceland | IS |
| Liechtenstein | LI |
| Norway | NO |
| Switzerland | CH |
3.4. Economic activity
| Economic activity title — Nace Rev.1 | Code |
|---|---|
| Life insurance | 66.01 |
| Non-life insurance | 66.03 |
| Reinsurance | 66.04 |
3.5. Measurement
| Measurement | Code |
|---|---|
| National currency | NC |
| Euro | EUR |
| Number | NBR |
3.6. Unit
| Unit | Code |
|---|---|
| Unit | UNIT |
| 1000 | 1000 |
| Mio | MIO |
| Bio | BIO |
3.7. Variable
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