Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/320 of 12 February 2026 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1197 as regards references to the statistical classification of products by activity (CPA) established by Regulation (EC) No 451/2008 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) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Regulation (EC) No 451/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council (2) established a common statistical classification of products by activity (‘CPA’). Regulation (EC) No 451/2008 started to apply on 1 January 2008.

(2) The internal consistency of European statistics requires that the CPA is structurally linked to its European reference classification, the statistical classification of economic activities in the European Union (‘NACE’), which was recently amended by Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/137 (3) that established NACE Revision 2 Update 1 (‘NACE Rev. 2.1’).

(3) Those changes to NACE Rev. 2.1 led to the adoption of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/3103 (4) which amended Regulation (EC) No 451/2008 in order to establish CPA Version 2.2 (‘CPA Ver. 2.2’).

(4) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1197 (5) lays down technical specifications and arrangements, as well as data requirements for European business statistics in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2019/2152. Annex I and Annex VI to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1197 set out data transmission requirements which refer to specific CPA headings. Those data transmission requirements should be updated in order to ensure that they are compatible with CPA Ver. 2.2.

(5) Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1197 should therefore be amended.

(6) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the European Statistical System Committee,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1197 is amended as follows:

(1) Annex I is amended in accordance with Annex I to this Regulation;

(2) Annex VI is amended in accordance with Annex II to this Regulation.

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, 12 February 2026.

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) Regulation (EC) No 451/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2008 establishing a new statistical classification of products by activity (CPA) and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 3696/93 (OJ L 145, 4.6.2008, p. 65, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2008/451/oj).

(3) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/137 of 10 October 2022 amending Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the statistical classification of economic activities NACE Revision 2 (OJ L 19, 20.1.2023, p. 5, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2023/137/oj).

(4) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/3103 of 2 September 2024 amending Regulation (EC) No 451/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards updating the classification of products by activity (CPA) (OJ L, 2024/3103, 12.12.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2024/3103/oj).

(5) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1197 of 30 July 2020 laying down technical specifications and arrangements pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council on European business statistics repealing 10 legal acts in the field of business statistics (OJ L 271, 18.8.2020, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2020/1197/oj).