The MEETS program aims to modernize European business and trade statistics by reducing costs and increasing relevance. It has four key objectives: review priorities, streamline frameworks, increase efficient production, and modernize Intrastat. It has a budget of 42.5 million euros over five years (2009-2013) to support networks, grants to member states, and procurements. Results include the EuroGroups Register providing infrastructure to measure activities of multinational enterprises and profiling analyses to more efficiently collect data from enterprise groups in a confidential manner. It also provides recommendations to revise statistical unit definitions and increase use of administrative and accounts data in statistical warehouses.

1. MEETS
(Modernisation of European
Enterprise and Trade Statistics)

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MEETS (Modernisation of European
Enterprise and Trade Statistics):
Objectives
MEETS programme aims to reduce costs and
increase the relevance of European business
statistics
Four objectives
• Review priorities
• Streamline framework
• More efficient production
• Modernise Intrastat

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MEETS (Modernisation of European
Enterprise and Trade Statistics):
Resources
Budget of 42,5 million euros over five years
(2009-2013)
• European Statistical System Networks
(http://www.cros-portal.eu/)
• Individual grants to Member States
• Procurements

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MEETS (Modernisation of European
Enterprise and Trade Statistics):
Results
EuroGroups Register will provide the
infrastructure for producing frame populations to
measure global activities of EU and EFTA
multinational enterprises
• Structures and units of most important enterprise
groups
• 700 000 legal units and 15 000 enterprise groups

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MEETS (Modernisation of European
Enterprise and Trade Statistics):
Results
Profiling analyses the legal, operational and
accounting structures of enterprise groups to find
the most efficient way to collect data
• A common methodology for profiling of enterprise
groups was developed
• An Interactive Profiling Tool will facilitate information
exchange between Member States while respecting
confidentiality rules

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MEETS (Modernisation of European
Enterprise and Trade Statistics):
Results
Recommendations for revising definitions of
administrative and statistical units (legal unit,
enterprise, enterprise group, kind of activity unit
and local kind of activity unit)
• Enterprise definition improved and enforced by
operational rules to achieve uniform implementation
• Kind of activity unit and Local kind of activity unit
definitions reformulated to make application easier
and to be applied only for very big units

7. 7
MEETS (Modernisation of European
Enterprise and Trade Statistics):
Results
Recommendations for the use of administrative
and accounts data
• Initial quality checks before use
• Estimation of not obtainable variables
• Estimation of Short-Term Statistics variables
• Combining different data sources
• Quality indicators
• Statistical characteristics and international
accounting standards

8. 8
MEETS (Modernisation of European
Enterprise and Trade Statistics):
Results
Recommendations for statistical data
warehouses
• Metadata management
• Building
• Implementation
A handbook for setting up statistical data
warehouses as a means to achieve more
integrated databases and production systems will
become available

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MEETS (Modernisation of European
Enterprise and Trade Statistics)
Thank you for the attention!
Geir-Martin.PILSKOG@ec.europa.eu