Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/2039 of 9 December 2020 granting derogations to certain Member States from the application of Commission Implementing Regulations (EU) 2019/2240 and (EU) 2019/2241 (notified under document C(2020) 8602) (Only the Croatian, Danish, Dutch and Polish texts are authentic)

• CELEX: Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/2039
• Articles: 3

Article 1

Derogations from Implementing Regulations (EU) 2019/2240 and (EU) 2019/2241 as set out in the Annex are granted to the Member States listed therein.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of Denmark, the Republic of Croatia, the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Republic of Poland.

Schedules & Appendices

ANNEX

ANNEX

Derogations from Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2240

Provision concerned

Member State

Derogation period granted

Scope of the derogation

Article 3 (Descriptions of variables) and Annex I

Croatia

1 year (2021)

Transmission of the variables INCGROSS (Gross monthly pay from the main job) and INCGROSS_F (Flag on gross monthly pay from the main job) as a net instead of a gross amount

Article 3 (Descriptions of variables) and Annex I

Croatia

1 year (2021)

Transmission of the variable HATFIELD (Field of the highest level of education successfully completed) in accordance with ISCED-F 2013, 2-digit coding instead of 3-digit coding.

Article 6(2) (Detailed sample characteristics)

The Netherlands

1 year (2021)

Uniform sample distribution:

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The full national sample of the reference year will not be uniformly distributed between all the reference quarters of the year.

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In each reference quarter the full quarterly sample will not be uniformly distributed between all the reference weeks of the quarter.

Article 9(2) (Common standards for editing, imputation, weighting and estimation)

Poland

2 years (2021–2022)

Transmission of the variable INCGROSS (Gross monthly pay from the main job) without statistical imputation for item non-response.

Transmission of corrected data with imputation for years 2021 and 2022 will take place together with the transmission of the data for 2023, namely in March 2025.

Derogations from Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2241

Provision concerned

Member State

Derogation period granted

Scope of the derogation

Article 4(1)(a) (Transmission deadlines)

Denmark

3 years (2021–2023)

Monthly unemployment data for the month of November shall be transmitted by 4 January of the following year.

Article 6(1) (Sources and methods)

Croatia

1 year (2021)

Description of the sources and methods used for the compilation of the monthly unemployment inputs shall be transmitted by 31 December 2021.