Science, Research and Innovation - Reports on quality

EU Member States provide the Commission (Eurostat) with reports on the quality of data transmitted on the base of Article 12 – Statistical quality of the Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics (which was amended by Regulation (EU) No 2015/759).

Specific requirements are laid down in sectoral legislation, namely in Regulation (EU) No 2019/2152 on European business statistics and Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2020/1197 laying down technical specifications and arrangements pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 2019/2152 on European business statistics.

Since the reference year 2020 metadata and quality reports are provided in the standard Single Integrated Metadata Structure (SIMS) via ESS Metadata Handler and are publicly available: