Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1310 of 3 July 2025 laying down the technical specifications of data requirements and the deadlines for submission of annual metadata and quality reports for the topic ICT usage and e-commerce for the reference year 2026, pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

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

Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2019 on European business statistics, repealing 10 legal acts in the field of business statistics (1), and in particular Article 7(1) and 17(6) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Data for the topic ‘ICT usage and e-commerce’, as referred to in Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2019/2152, is required by the Digital Decade Policy Programme (2) to monitor the Union’s digital targets for 2030, such as the Digital Intensity Indicator for the digital transformation of businesses or the take-up of cloud computing services, big data analysis (data analytics) or artificial intelligence. That topic also provides information for various other Union policies related to the political guidelines for the European Commission 2024-2029, such as the new plan for Europe’s sustainable prosperity and competitiveness and the Communication on a comprehensive EU Toolbox for Safe and Sustainable E-commerce.

(2) In order to make it possible to assess the quality of the data and to ensure that data for the topic ‘ICT usage and e-commerce’ are comparable and harmonised, deadlines for metadata and quality reports have to be specified.

(3) The measures set out for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the European Statistical System Committee,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

For reference year 2026, Member States shall transmit to the Commission (Eurostat) data for the topic ‘ICT usage and e-commerce’, as referred to in Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2019/2152, that comply with the technical specifications in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

Article 3

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, 3 July 2025.

For the Commission The President Ursula VON DER LEYEN

(1) OJ L 327, 17.12.2019, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2019/2152/oj.

(2) Decision (EU) 2022/2481 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 December 2022 establishing the Digital Decade Policy Programme 2030 (OJ L 323, 19.12.2022, p. 4, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2022/2481/oj).