Irish Statutory Instruments

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

"Iris Oifigiúil" of 16th July, 2010.

I, JOHN CURRAN, Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 25(1) of the Statistics Act 1993 (No. 21 of 1993) and the Statistics (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2010 ( S.I. No. 166 of 2010 ), hereby order as follows:

1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Statistics (Business Accounts Surveys) Order 2010.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on 1 October 2010.

2. In this Order-

"Act" means the Statistics Act 1993 (No. 21 of 1993);

"surveys" means surveys (the first of which shall be in October 2010, or as soon as possible thereafter, relating to the period from July to September 2010) to be undertaken by the Central Statistics Office as nearly as possible at intervals of 3 months during the period from 1 October 2010 to 30 June 2015, in relation to the economic activities of the undertaking concerned in respect of the period to which the relevant survey undertaken in accordance with this Order applies.

3. (1) This Order applies to undertakings that are classified for statistical purposes under Sections B, C, D, E, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N and S of NACE Rev. 2, set out in Annex 1 to Regulation (EC) No. 1983/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 ¹ .

(2) This Order does not apply in respect of information required of undertakings pursuant to the European Communities (Statistics) (Business Accounts Surveys) Regulations 2006 ( S.I. No. 247 of 2006 ).

4. Information required to be provided by this Order, the general nature of which is specified in the Schedule-

(a) is prescribed as information required to be provided for the purposes of surveys of undertakings to which this Order applies by means of the forms and questionnaires referred to in Article 5(a), and

(b) shall be provided within the period of time specified by the Director General.

5. An undertaking required by this Order to provide information to the Office shall provide such information-

(a) by the completion of forms and questionnaires prepared by the Director General in accordance with section 23 of the Act, and

(b) where directions under section 26 of the Act have been given to the undertaking, in accordance with those directions.

6. An undertaking required by this Order to provide information to the Office shall be deemed to comply with that requirement where, with the consent of the Director General, the information is provided by electronic means in a format or manner approved by the Director General.

7. The Statistics (Business Accounts Surveys) Order 2006 ( S.I. No. 248 of 2006 is revoked.

Regulation 4

SCHEDULE

1. Particulars of persons employed by the undertaking (for undertakings which are classified for statistical purposes under NACE Sections B, C, D, E, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N and S).

2. Particulars of stock and work in progress of the undertakings (for undertakings which are classified for statistical purposes under NACE Sections B, C, D, E, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N and S).

3. Particulars of moneys owned to the undertaking and moneys owned by the undertakings (for undertakings which are classified for statistical purposes under NACE Sections B, C, D, E, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N and S).

4. Particulars of types of activities carried out by the undertakings (for undertakings which are classified for statistical purposes under NACE Sections B, C, D, E, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N and S).

5. Particulars of capital assets (for undertakings which are classified for statistical purposes under NACE Sections B, C, D, E, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N and S).

GIVEN under my hand,

13 July 2010.

JOHN CURRAN,

Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach.

1 OJ No. L393, 30.12.2006, p.1.