Modalities, structure and periodicity of the quality reports
Article 3
1. Every year Member States shall provide the Commission (Eurostat) with reports on the quality of the data transmitted under Regulation (EU) No 691/2011 with the same transmission deadlines as stipulated in Annexes I to VI, section 4 of that Regulation. 2. The quality reports shall include the following information: (a) the quality of sources used for data transmitted under Regulation (EU) No 691/2011; (b) the adjustments made to basic statistics to make the result align to the concepts and definitions of the accounts or for other methodological reasons; (c) the estimation and compilation of data which cannot be derived directly from statistical sources; (d) the breaks in time series resulting from changes in methodology or data sources and the steps taken to ensure time series are as comparable as possible.