Data to be collected

1. The data shall be collected by the Member States with a view to producing Community statistics for the analysis of continuing vocational training in enterprises in the following fields:

training policy and training strategies of enterprises in developing the skills of their workforce;

management, organisation and forms of continuing vocational training in enterprises;

the role of social partners in ensuring all aspects of continuing vocational training in the workplace;

access to continuing vocational training, its volume and content, especially in the context of economic activity and enterprise size;

specific continuing vocational training measures of enterprises to improve the ICT skills of their workforce;

chances for employees in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to access continuing vocational training and to acquire new skills, and the particular needs of SMEs in the provision of training;

the effects of public measures on continuing vocational training in enterprises;

equal opportunities to access continuing vocational training in enterprises for all employees, with respect to gender and specific age groups in particular;

specific continuing vocational training measures for people at a disadvantage in the labour market;

continuing vocational training measures geared to different types of employment contract;

expenditure on continuing vocational training: funding levels and funding resources, incentives for continuing vocational training; and

evaluation and monitoring procedures of enterprises as regards continuing vocational training.

2. Specific data shall be collected by the Member States with respect to initial vocational training in enterprises on:

participants in initial vocational training; and

total expenditure on initial vocational training.

REGULATION (EC) No 1552/2005 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 7 September 2005 on statistics relating to vocational training in enterprises