Deadline and standards for transmitting data
Article 8
1. Member States shall transmit the final data to the Commission (Eurostat) by 5 October 2027. 2. The data shall be transmitted in the form of microdata files, including appropriate weights. The data shall be fully checked and validated before transmission using the statistical data and metadata exchange standard through the Single Entry Point. That data shall comply with the validation rules in accordance with the specification of variables based on the coding and filters as set out in the Annex. 3. Member States shall provide the metadata to the Commission (Eurostat) in the standard metadata structure defined by the Commission (Eurostat) by 5 January 2028. They shall provide it through the Single Entry Point.