Metadata and quality reporting
Article 3
1. Member States shall report to the Commission (Eurostat), by 31 March 2014, the background information specified in Annex I to this Regulation as well as the quality-related data and metadata specified in Annexes II and III to this Regulation, with reference to their population and housing censuses for the reference year 2011 and to the data and metadata transmitted to the Commission (Eurostat) as required by Regulation (EU) No 519/2010. 2. To meet the requirements of paragraph 1, Member States shall make a coverage assessment for their population and housing censuses for the reference year 2011 as well as an assessment of the imputation and deletion of data records. 3. Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 ( 4 ) and the Euro SDMX Metadata Structure as defined in Commission Recommendation 2009/498/EC ( 5 ) for the production and exchange of reference metadata (including quality) shall apply in the context of this Regulation.