Quality assessment

1. Member States shall take the measures necessary to ensure the quality of the data and metadata transmitted.

2. For the purpose of this Regulation, the quality criteria set out in Article 12(1) of Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 shall apply to the data to be transmitted in accordance with Article 3 of this Regulation.

3. The Commission (Eurostat) shall assess the quality of the data transmitted. For that purpose, Member States shall transmit a quality report to the Commission (Eurostat), for the first time by 31 December 2025, and every 5 years thereafter, for the data sets transmitted during the reporting period.

4. In applying the quality criteria set out in Article 12(1) of Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 to the data to be transmitted in accordance with Article 3 of this Regulation, the Commission shall, by means of implementing acts, define the modalities, structure and assessment indicators for the quality reports referred to in paragraph 3 of this Article. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 4a(2) of this Regulation. They shall not impose a significant additional burden or cost on the Member States.

5. Member States shall provide the Commission (Eurostat) without delay with any relevant information or change with regard to the implementation of this Regulation that would, in any substantial way, influence the quality of the data transmitted.

6. Upon a duly justified request from the Commission (Eurostat), Member States shall, without delay, provide any additional clarification necessary to assess the quality of the statistical data.

( *2 ) Regulation (EC) No 1367/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 September 2006 on the application of the provisions of the Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters to Union institutions and bodies ( OJ L 264, 25.9.2006, p. 13 ).’;"

The following Articles are inserted:

REGULATION (EU) 2022/590 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 6 April 2022 amending Regulation (EC) No 138/2004 as regards regional economic accounts for agriculture ANNEX I ANNEX II ‘ANNEX II