STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

S.I. No248 of 2006

Statistics (Business Accounts Surveys) Order 2006

I, Tom Kitt, Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 25(1) of the Statistics Act 1993 (No. 21 of 1993) and the Statistics (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2004 ( S.I. No. 664 of 2004 ), hereby order as follows:

1.         This Order may be cited as the Statistics (Business Accounts Surveys) Order 2006.

2.         In this Order -

-�Act-� means Statistics Act 1993 (No. 21 of 1993);

-�surveys-� means surveys (the first of which shall be in April 2006, or as soon as possible thereafter, relating to the period January to March 2006) to be undertaken by the Office as nearly as possible at intervals of 3 months during the period from 1 January 2006 to 31 December 2010, in relation to the economic activities of the undertaking concerned in respect of the period to which the relevant survey undertaken in accordance with this Order applies.

3.         (1)      This Order applies to undertakings which are classified for statistical purposes under Sections C, D, E, G, H, I, J and K of NACE Rev. 1, set out in the Annex to Council Regulation (EEC) No. 3037/90 of 9 October 1990¹ , as amended by Commission Regulation (EEC) No. 29/2002 of 19 December 2001² .

(2)      This Order does not apply in respect of information required of enterprises pursuant to the European Communities (Statistics) (Business Accounts Surveys) Regulations 2006.

4.         Information, the general nature of which is specified in the Schedule, is prescribed as information required to be provided, within the period specified by the Director General, by each undertaking to which this Order applies to the Office for the purpose of each of the surveys, as required by the forms and questionnaires referred to in Article 5(a).

5.         An undertaking required by this Order to provide information to the Office shall provide such information -

(a)      by the completion of forms and questionnaires prepared by the Director General in accordance with section 23 of the Act, and

(b)      where directions under section 26 of the Act have been given to the enterprise, in accordance with those directions.

6.         An undertaking required by this Order to provide information to the Office shall be deemed to comply with that requirement where, with the consent of the Director General, the information is provided by electronic means in a format or manner approved by the Director General.

SCHEDULE 1

Article 4

Particulars of persons employed by the undertaking (for undertakings which are classified for statistical purposes under NACE Sections C, D and E).

Particulars of stock and work in progress of the undertaking (for undertakings which are classified for statistical purposes under NACE Sections C, D, E and G).

Particulars of moneys owed to the undertaking and moneys owed by the undertaking (for undertakings which are classified for statistical purposes under NACE Sections C, D, E, G, H, I and K).

Particulars of types of activities carried out by the undertaking (for undertakings which are classified for statistical purposes under NACE Sections C, D, E, G, H, I, J and K).

Particulars of capital assets (for undertakings which are classified for statistical purposes under NACE sections C, D, E, G, H, I, J and K).

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulation and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

The purpose of this instrument is to enable a statutory survey of Stocks, Capital Assets, Debtors and Creditors, Turnover, Employment and Earnings to be undertaken on a quarterly basis from Q1 2006 onwards.

The EU requirements are covered by the European Communities (Statistics) (Business Accounts Surveys) Regulations 2006 while the national requirements are covered by the Statistics (Business Accounts Surveys) Order 2006.

This instrument defines the scope of the survey and requires that returns be furnished to the Central Statistics Office covering all undertakings in respect of which the prescribed forms have been issued.

¹ OJ No. L293, 24.10.1990, p.1.

² OJ No. L6, 10.01.2002, p.1.