1999/841/EC: Commission Decision of 24 November 1999 on the implementation of Council Decision 1999/297/EC establishing a Community statistical information infrastructure relating to the industry and markets of the audiovisual and related sectors (notified under document number C(1999) 3872) (Text with EEA relevance)
18. 12. 1999 EN Official Journal of the European Communities L 326/65 COMMISSION DECISION of 24 November 1999 on the implementation of Council Decision 1999/297/EC establishing a Community statistical information infrastructure relating to the industry and markets of the audiovisual and related sectors (notified under document number C(1999) 3872) (Text with EEA relevance) (1999/841/EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION: Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Decision 1999/297/EC of 26 April 1999 establishing a Community statistical information infra- structure relating to the industry and markets of the audio- visual and related sectors (1) and in particular Article 3 thereof, Whereas: (1) (2) (3) Decision 1999/297/EC determined the individual statist- ical actions necessary in order to establish a Community information infrastructure relating to the statistical industry and markets of the audiovisual and related sectors; It is necessary to adopt measures for the implementation of individual statistical actions; The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with Statistical the Programme Committee, opinion the of Article 1 The measures to implement individual actions referred to in Article 2 of Decision 1999/297/EC are specified in the Annex to this Decision. Article 2 This Decision is addressed to the Member States. Done at Brussels, 24 November 1999. For the Commission Pedro SOLBES MIRA Member of the Commission (1) OJ L 117, 5. 5. 1999, p. 39. L 326/66 EN Official Journal of the European Communities 18. 12. 1999 A. Measures to implement actions to be undertaken by the national authorities ANNEX Reference in the Council Decision 1999/297/EC Article 2(1)(a) Article 2(1)(b) Article 2(1)(c) Description of the measure Date scheduled for completing the measure 1 2 3 4 each Member State of priorities Studies by concerning national user needs for statistics. The domains to be studied should be those in the Auvis classification plan (1) June 2000 Update of the existing inventory by each Member State of national statistics and sources December 2000 Optionally, development of the network of contacts between the Member States and main data produ- cers by means of workshops held in volunteer Member States Forwarding to Eurostat by each Member State during 2000 of a questionnaire on audiovisual stat- functions and products) already on istics (firms, hand or available from the competent national authorities. The questionnaire, which is based on the Auvis classification plan, will be sent to Member States in the second quarter of the year 2000 September 2000 September 2000 (1) The Auvis classification plan covers the following markets: — Audiovisual production market; — Audiovisual distribution market; — Cinema exhibition market; — Video market; — Television market; — Sound recording production and publishing market; — Consumer sound recordings market; — Radio market; — ‘Bouquets’ of programme services market; — Cable operating market; — Radio and TV signal market; — Satellite (broadcasting) trnasmission market; In addition, technological developments may require a ‘New media’ market category. B. Measures to implement actions to be undertaken by Eurostat Reference in the Council Decision 1999/297/EC Article 2(2)(a) Description of the measure Date scheduled for completing the measure 1 2 3 Updating of the chapter specific to audiovisual services in the Eurostat Manual of Business Statistics March 2000 Updating and publication, via the web, of the general methodological manual on audiovisual stat- istics December 2000 Methodological studies on specific topics selected from within the following broad areas: September 2001 — structural business statistics for enterprises of the audiovisual and related sectors; — statistics on selected sub-sectors such as film production, TV and radio; — selected topics such as internationl trade in servides of the audiovisual and related sectors, international co-productions, new media 18. 12. 1999 EN Official Journal of the European Communities L 326/67 Reference in the Council Decision 1999/297/EC Article 2(2)(b) Article 2(2)(c) Article 2(2)(d) 4 5 6 7 8 9 Description of the measure Processing of the data received from the 1999 ques- tionnaire to Member States, and making the results available in Eurostat's dissemination database, and via publications Date scheduled for completing the measure December 1999 Participation in workshops held in volunteer Member States for the development of the network of contacts between the Member States and main data producers September 2000 Processing the data received from the 2000 ques- tionnaire to Member States, and making the results available in Eurostat's dissemination database, and via publications December 2000 Adaptation of an existing Eurostat computerised system to receive, validate, transform and store stat- istics gathered from Member States and international organisations June 2001 Comparison of Member harmonisation existing statistical States with a view to systems in improved June 2001 Study of the priorities concerning needs for statistics by the Commission's services November 1999 10 Study of the priorities concerning needs for statistics by international organisations working in the field March 2000