Commission Regulation (EU) 2022/132 of 28 January 2022 amending Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on energy statistics, as regards the implementation of updates for the annual, monthly and short-term monthly energy statistics (Text with EEA relevance)

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008 on energy statistics (1), and in particular Article 4(3), Article 5(3) and Article 9(2) and (3) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 establishes a common framework for the production, transmission, evaluation and dissemination of comparable energy statistics in the Union.

(2) Energy statistics need to evolve continuously due to the fast pace of technological progress, the evolution of Union energy policies and the importance of basing Union targets and the monitoring of progress in reaching them on official energy data. Regular updates of the European energy statistics reporting framework are therefore required to reflect growing or changing needs.

(3) Using reliable high quality energy statistics to monitor the policy targets under the European Green Deal and the Energy Union packages should enhance the credibility of Union energy policy.

(4) The Commission has identified several aspects of the annual and short-term monthly energy statistics that need to be updated. They concern notably greater disaggregation of the statistics on final energy consumption in services and transport, new energy carriers like hydrogen, new data on electricity generation and storage, more detailed data on renewable energy sources, new estimated data for the production of energy balances earlier and improved timeliness of the annual data collection. In addition, reporting requirements related to short-term monthly statistics for natural gas and oil and petroleum products are removed, because more complete monthly data are now available with improved timeliness. The Commission has discussed and agreed with the Member States on several technical aspects, including the scope, feasibility, production costs, confidentiality and reporting requirements.

(5) Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 should therefore be amended accordingly.

(6) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the European Statistical System Committee, established by Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council (2),

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The Annexes to Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 are replaced by the text in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following 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, 28 January 2022.

For the Commission The President Ursula VON DER LEYEN

(1) OJ L 304, 14.11.2008, p. 1.

(2) Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on European statistics and repealing Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1101/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the transmission of data subject to statistical confidentiality to the Statistical Office of the European Communities, Council Regulation (EC) No 322/97 on Community Statistics, and Council Decision 89/382/EEC, Euratom establishing a Committee on the Statistical Programmes of the European Communities (OJ L 87, 31.3.2009, p. 164).