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1.3.2011 Official
Journal
of
the
European
Union L
56/1
II
(Non-legislative acts)
REGULATIONS
COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 193/2011
of 28 February 2011
implementing Regulation (EC) No 1445/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council as
regards the system of quality control used for Purchasing Power Parities
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
the reporting and assessment requirements are specified
in Section 5 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No
1445/2007.
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
Union,
(3)
It is necessary to further define the common quality
criteria and the structure of the quality reports.
Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1445/2007 of the
European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December
2007 establishing common rules for the provision of basic
(4) The
measures
provided
for
in
this
Regulation
are
in
information on Purchasing Power Parities and for their calcu
accordance with the opinion of the European Statistical
lation and dissemination (
System Committee,

1 ), and in particular Article 7(4)
thereof,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Whereas:
Article 1
(1) Regulation
(EC)
No
1445/2007
establishes
common The common quality criteria and the structure of the quality
rules for the provision of basic information on
reports concerning Purchasing Power Parities as provided for by
Purchasing Power Parities and for their calculation and
Regulation (EC) No 1445/2007 shall be as set out in the Annex
dissemination.
to this Regulation.
Article 2
(2) The
minimum
quality
standards
for
the
basic
information
to be provided by Member States, the minimum quality
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following
standards for the validation of price survey results and
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 February 2011.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO
( 1 ) OJ L 336, 20.12.2007, p. 1.

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ANNEX
Common quality criteria and structure of quality reports
1. Inventory of sources and methods used in the Eurostat PPP exercise (‘PPP inventory’)
To fulfil the requirements of paragraph 5.3.1 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1445/2007, each Member State shall
provide an inventory of sources and methods used in the Eurostat PPP exercise (hereinafter referred to as the ‘PPP
inventory’).
The structure of the PPP inventory shall be based on the various items of basic information provided in the context of
Regulation (EC) No 1445/2007, as follows:
1. Organisation
of
the
national
PPP
exercise
and
background
information
2. Consumer
goods
and
services
2.1. Consumer goods price surveys
— Includes information on survey organisation, sampling, representativity, validation, temporal and spatial
adjustment factors
2.2. Housing services
— Includes information on data sources and their quality, compliance with definitions, any adjustments made
3. Government
services
(salary
survey
only)
— Includes information on data sources and their quality, compliance with definitions, any adjustments made
4. Capital
goods
and
services
4.1. Equipment goods
— Includes information on survey organisation, sampling, representativity, validation
4.2. Construction
— Includes information on survey organisation, data sources and their quality, representativity, validation
5. Final
expenditure
on
GDP
— Includes information on data sources and their quality, compliance with definitions, any adjustments made
Each Member State shall provide an update of the PPP inventory in January each year, whenever changes to sources and
methods used have occurred during the preceding year.
2. Consumer goods price survey reports
To fulfil the requirements of paragraph 5.3.3 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1445/2007, each Member State shall
submit a report for each consumer goods price survey. The structure of the report shall be as follows:
1. Pre-survey
2. Price collection
3. Intra-country validation
4. Inter-country validation
The survey reports shall contain information complementary to the PPP inventories.
3. Quality criteria
The criteria used in the assessment of the quality of the basic information provided shall be those laid down in Article 12
of Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on European
statistics ( 1 ), in combination with the minimum standards laid down in Section 5 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No
1445/2007.
( 1 ) OJ L 87, 31.3.2009, p. 164.

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