Regulation (EC) No 1552/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 September 2005 on statistics relating to vocational training in enterprises (Text with EEA relevance)

Article 1

Subject matter

This Regulation establishes a common framework for the production of Community statistics on vocational training in enterprises.

Article 2

Definitions

For the purpose of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply:

Article 3

Data to be collected

The data shall be collected by the Member States with a view to producing Community statistics for the analysis of continuing vocational training in enterprises in the following fields:

(a) training policy and training strategies of enterprises in developing the skills of their workforce;

(b) management, organisation and forms of continuing vocational training in enterprises;

(c) the role of social partners in ensuring all aspects of continuing vocational training in the workplace;

(d) access to continuing vocational training, its volume and content, especially in the context of economic activity and enterprise size;

(e) specific continuing vocational training measures of enterprises to improve the ICT skills of their workforce;

(f) chances for employees in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to access continuing vocational training and to acquire new skills, and the particular needs of SMEs in the provision of training;

(g) the effects of public measures on continuing vocational training in enterprises;

(h) equal opportunities to access continuing vocational training in enterprises for all employees, with respect to gender and specific age groups in particular;

(i) specific continuing vocational training measures for people at a disadvantage in the labour market;

(j) continuing vocational training measures geared to different types of employment contract;

(k) expenditure on continuing vocational training: funding levels and funding resources, incentives for continuing vocational training; and

(l) evaluation and monitoring procedures of enterprises as regards continuing vocational training.

Specific data shall be collected by the Member States with respect to initial vocational training in enterprises on:

(a) participants in initial vocational training; and

(b) total expenditure on initial vocational training.

Article 4

Scope of statistics

The statistics on the vocational training in enterprises shall cover at least all economic activities defined in sections B to N and R to S of NACE Rev. 2.

Article 5

Statistical units

Article 6

Data sources

Article 7

Survey characteristics

Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that the data they transmit reflect the structure of the population of the statistical units. The survey shall be conducted in such a way as to permit a breakdown of the results at Community level in at least the following categories:

(a) economic activities pursuant to  NACE Rev. 2; and

(b) size of the enterprises.

Article 8

Survey approach

In order to reduce the burden on respondents the survey approach shall permit the data collection to be customised with respect to:

(a) training and non-training enterprises; and

(b) different forms of vocational training.

Article 9

Quality control and reports

Article 10

Reference period and periodicity

Article 11

Transmission of data

Article 12

Report on implementation

By 20 October 2010 and after consultation of the Statistical Programme Committee, the Commission shall transmit a report to the European Parliament and the Council on the implementation of this Regulation. In particular, this report shall:

(a) assess the benefits accruing to the Community, the Member States and the users of the statistics produced in relation to the burden on the respondents; and

(b) identify areas for potential improvement and amendments considered necessary in the light of the results obtained.

Article 13

Implementing measures

The measures necessary to take account of economic and technical developments concerning the collection, transmission and processing of the data shall be adopted by the Commission. Those measures, 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 14(3).

Other measures for the implementation of this Regulation, including the appropriate technical format and interchange standard of the electronically transmitted data, shall be adopted by the Commission in accordance with the regulatory procedure referred to in Article 14(2).

Article 14

Committee procedure

The period laid down in Article 5(6) of Decision 1999/468/EC shall be set at three months.

Article 15

Financing

Article 16

Entry into force

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.