Prerequisites for single flow system

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Prerequisites for single flow system

• Asymmetry Seminar, Copenhagen 12-13 October 2006

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The Danish project

• The purpose
• Identify the prerequisites for implementation of
  a single flow in EU
• Make conclusions and possible recommendations
  where possible
• Point to areas needed to be further investigated
• Lay down a roadmap for the work towards a single
  flow
• The report expected to be finished in January 2007

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Current work (1)

• Base flow
• Quality issue
• Dispatches chosen
• Quality
• Address asymmetries in the context of single flow
• Other quality problems or gains must be examined
• Harmonisation
• The biggest task
• E.g. adjustment methods, trade system, coverage,
  information collected, confidentiality

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Current work (2)

• Organisation within the NSI
• Reduced resource requirements
• Reduced burdens
• Cooperation between NSIs and Eurostat
• Standard centralised data exchange
• Standard communication between MSs concerning
  possible outliers
• Legislature

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Conclusions so far

• Base flow is dispatches
• Active role for Eurostat/central operator
• Huge harmonisation needs

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The future

• More research and input on possible issues
• Roadmap describing the continuous work towards
  single flow
• Practical experience by setting up a test system
  to identify practical problems with single flow

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Questions/discussion

• Role for a centralised operator
• Adjustments for non-response both enterprise and
  MS
• Merely mediator of data
• Validation
• Sanctions
• Partial or complete single flow system
• All MS or qualified MS
• Only one flow collected or perhaps 1½ flow
• Confidentiality
• Exchange transactions or aggregated statistics
• Enterprise requests for confidentiality in the
  dissemination