L 24432 Official Journal of the European Union 29.9.2003 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1668/2003 of 1 September 2003 implementing Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 with regard to the technical format for the transmission of the structural business statistics and amending Commission Regulation No 2702/98 concerning the technical format for the transmission of structural business statistics THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Com- munity, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58| 97 of 20 December 1996 concerning structural business statistics (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1667/ 2003 (3), and in particular Article 12 (viii) thereof, Whereas: 1 ) ) Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 established a com- mon framework for the production of Community statistics on the structure, activity, performance and competitiveness of the banking and the pension fund sector in the Community. In order to facilitate the transmission of statistics on environmental expenditure, the technical format pro- vided for by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2702/98 of 17 December 1998 concerning the technical format for the transmission of structural business statistics (3), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1614 [2002 (%), should be adjusted. Regulation (EC) No 2702/98 defined the technical format for the transmission of the structural business statistics characteristics listed in the common module and the detailed modules for industry, distribu- tive trades and construction of Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97. It is necessary to amend this technical format in order to take account of the addition of characteristics on environmental expenditure as well as the addition of the breakdown by environmental domains for some characteristics of the detailed module on industry of Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97. OJL14,17.1.1997,p. 1. See page 1 of this Official Journal. % OJ L 344,18.2.1998, p. 102. 4 OJ L 244,12.9.2002, p. 7. G) It is necessary to specify the technical format for the transmission of structural business statistics on credit institutions and pension funds listed in Annexes 6 and 7 to Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 in order to produce data comparable and harmonised between Member States, to reduce the risk of errors in the transmission of data and to increase the speed with which the data collected can be processed and made available to users. It is necessary to define another technical format for the transmission of the character- istics of the detailed modules on credit institutions and pension funds as the technical format defined in Regulation (EC) No 2702/98 for the transmission of the characteristics of the common module and the detailed modules on industry, distributive trades and construc- tion provides for a different breakdown of results. The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Statistical Pro- gramme Committee, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 The Annex to Regulation (EC) No 2702/98 is amended in accordance with Annex I to this Regulation. Atticle 2 The technical format referred to in Article 9 of Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 for Annex 6 is defined in Annex IIto this Regulation. Atticle 3 The technical format referred to in Article 9 of Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 for Annex 7 is defined in Annex III to this Regulation.