LegalizeCommission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/258 of 16 December 2019 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 of the European Parliament and of the Council by specifying the number and the titles of the variables for the income and living conditions domain (Text with EEA relevance)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 October 2019 establishing a common framework for European statistics relating to persons and households, based on data at individual level collected from samples, amending Regulations (EC) No 808/2004, (EC) No 452/2008 and (EC) No 1338/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council Regulation (EC) No 577/98 (1), and in particular Article 6(1) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) In order to cover the needs identified in the relevant detailed topics, the Commission should specify the number and the titles of the variables for the dataset in the income and living conditions domain (EU-SILC).
(2) The EU-SILC survey is a key instrument for providing information required by the European Semester and the European Pillar of Social Rights, in particular for income distribution, poverty and social exclusion, as well as various related living conditions and poverty EU policies, such as on child poverty, access to health care and other services, housing, over indebtedness and quality of life. It is also the main source of data for microsimulation purposes and flash estimates of income distribution and poverty rates.
(3) The number of variables to be collected does not exceed by more than 5 % the number of variables collected for the income and living conditions domain at the time when Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 entered into force.
(4) The Commission has carried out appropriate consultations of national experts as part of the preparation of this delegated act,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
The number and the titles of the variables for the data set in the income and living conditions domain are set out in the Annex.
Article 2
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.
Done at Brussels, 16 December 2019.
For the Commission The President Ursula VON DER LEYEN