17.1.2002 Official Journal of the European Communities L 15/7 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 72/2002 of 16 January 2002 implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 530/1999 as regards quality evaluation of structural statistics on earnings (Text with EEA relevance) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 530/1999 of 9 March 1999 concerning structural statistics on earnings and labour costs (), and in particular Article 11 thereof, Whereas: (1)  Implementing measures for Regulation (EC) No 530/ 1999 are necessary concerning the content and evalu- ation criteria of the report on quality to be forwarded to the European Commission (Eurostat) after each reference period. (2)  The information delivered in that report should refer to the variables defined in Commission Regulation (EC) No 1916/2000 of 8 September 2000 on implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 530/1999 concerning struc- tural statistics on earnings and on labour costs as regards the definition and transmission of information on the structure of earnings (3). (3)  The feasibility and the relevance of some optional items provided for the first quality report should be reviewed by Eurostat and the national statistics institutes in the light of the information delivered by the Member States. (4)  The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Statistical Programme Committee, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 1.  The content and evaluation criteria of the report on quality referred to in Article 10(2) of Regulation (EC) No 530/1999 are laid down in the Annex to the present Regula- tion, Parts A and B. The variables specified are those defined in Annex II to Regula- tion (EC) No 1916/2000. 2. The information and the optional characteristics or breakdowns, laid down in the Annex, are requested, in so far as that is made possible by the derogations in Community legisla- tion concerning structural statistics on labour costs and earn- ings, the labour force survey, the structural business statistics and national accounts. Article 2 The first quality report shall be delivered for the reference year 2002 structure of earnings survey. It shall be transmitted to Eurostat together with the data delivery and at the latest 24 months after the end of the reference period for which the data was collected. Article 3 The feasibility and relevance of the optional items laid down in the Annex, Part B, shall be reviewed in the light of the informa- tion actually delivered by the Member States. This review shall be carried out by Eurostat and the national statistics institutes. Article 4 This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 16 January 2002. For the Commission Pedro SOLBES MIRA Member of the Commission