Situation and outlook with regard to regional accounts in the Community

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SITUATION AND OUTLOOK WITH
REGARD TO REGIONAL ACCOUNTS
IN THE COMMUNITY
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Documents of the seminar held in
Luxembourg from 30.11. to 3.12.1982
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DE EUROPÆISKE FÆLLESSKABERS STATISTISKE KONTOR
STATISTISCHES AMT DER EUROPÄISCHEN GEMEINSCHAFTEN
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STATISTICAL OFFICE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
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REGARD TO REGIONAL ACCOUNTS
IN THE COMMUNITY
Documents of the seminar held in
Luxembourg from 30.11. to 3.12.1982
1984 SITUATION AND OUTLOOK WITH REGARD TO
REGIONAL ACCOUNTS IN THE COMMUNITY
The papers in this publication were presented at a seminar held under the
auspices of EUROSTAT in Luxembourg at the end of 1982. Methodologies regarding
the preparation of regional accounts for six European Community Member States
were also presented and have already been published separately. It is hoped
that this document will prove a useful source of reflection for those interes­
ted in regional affairs and the various problems encountered in translating
them into statistical terms.
List of documents
01. Statistical needs for Community regional policy
Directorate General for regional policy, Commission of the European
Communities, Brussels, Belgium
02. The use of regional accounts in competition poLicy - Mr. Scott LARSEN
Directorate General IV - Competition - Brussels, Belgium
03. Regionalizing the common agricultural policy: Statistical information
requi red
Directorate General for agriculture, Commission of the European
Communities, Brussels, Belgium
04. The European Investment Bank (EIB) as a user of statistics and
regional accounts
European Investment Bank, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
05. The Community system of regional accounts
Statistical Office of the European Communities, Grand Duchy of
Luxembourg
06. Demand and supply for regional statistics in the Netherlands
Mr. BROUWER, Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek, The Hague,
Netherlands
07. Some specific aspects of regional planning
Mr. GUARINI, University of Rome, Italy
08. Statistical requirements for regional development programmes in
Greece
Mr. ATHANASSI0U, Center of planning and economic research, Athens,
Greece
09. Statistical information and problems concerning the breakdown of
aggregates by region in Italy
Mr. QUIRINO, Istituto Centrale di Statistica, Rome, Italy
10. Application of the ESA to UK's regional accounts
Mr. RAMPRAKASH, Central Statistical Office, London, United Kingdom 2 -
11. Reliability and precision of the regional accounts' results in
France
Mr. SICHERMAN, Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes
Economiques, Paris, France
12. The "nonterritorial" region ('extra-regio') in the regional accounts
system
Mr. ALTHUIZEN, Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek, The Hague,
Netherlands
13. The provision of economic aggregates at subregional Level in the
Federal Republic of Germany
Statistisches Bundesamt, Arbeitskreis VGR der Länder, Wiesbaden,
FR of Germany
14. The provision of economic aggregates at subregional level in the
Federal Republic of Germany
Statistisches Bundesamt, Arbeitskreis VGR der Länder, Wiesbaden,
FR of Germany
15. Regional and "departemental" accounts of agriculture in France
Mr. GREINER, Ministry of Agriculture, Paris, France
16. Possibilities for developing regional accounts of agriculture at
Community level
Mr. HENRY, S.E.D.E.S., Paris, France
17. Inter-City comparisons of consumer prices and consumers' purchasing
power parities
Mr. GUCKES, Statistisches Bundesamt, Wiesbaden, FR of Germany
18. Administrative regions or functional regions ?
Mr. KLEMMER, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, FR of Germany
19. Regional equilibrium of goods and services: balanced account or
input-output table ? Statistical and methodological problems
Mr. COURBIS, University Paris X, Nanterre, France
20. Developments in interregional input-output analysis; the European
perspective of recent Dutch experiences
Mr. OOSTERHAVEN, University Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
21. Possibilities for regionalising public receipts and expenditures
Mr. BIEHL, J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, FR of Germany
22. Financial flows in the regional context: the experience of the
United Kingdom
Mr. SHORT, University of Durham, United Kingdom
23. Regional accounts in Spain: Past experience, current situation and
future work programme
Mr. MARTINEZ-LOPEZ, Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Madrid, Spain
24. Situation and perspectives for the work on the regional accounts in
Portugal
Mr. CATARINO, Instituto Nacional de Estatistica, Lisbon, Portugal Document Nc 01
STATISTICAL NEEDS FOR COMMUNITY
REGIONAL POLICY
Presented by: Directorate-General
for Regional Policy,
Commission of the European
Communi ties,
Brussels, Belgium. Statistical needs for Community regional policy
1. The development and strengthening of Community regional policy since the
mid seventies has created a considerable demand for regional statistics.
The purpose of this paper is to show the uses to which these statistics
are put in the various policy areas.
2. The Directorate General for Regional Policy has a number of distinct
functions. The most obvious of these is the management of the European
Regional Development Fund - both the quota and non-quota sections.
It also has responsibilities in relation to other financial instruments
- ECSC and EIB funds - as well as participation in the work of coordination
of all Community structural financial instruments for which the Task Force,
which reports directly to Mr. Giolitti, is responsible.
3. Linked to Fund management but covering the wider regional planning functions
is the development of the regional development programmes by the Member
States. These programmes and the back up statistical data which accompany
them provide the framework and reference points against which the grant
of Community regional aid can be assessed and also how national regional
aid policies are monitored.
4. A further area of Community regional policy is the assessment of the
impact on the regions of particular Community policies. These assessments
provide the basis both for attempting to modulate the appropriate Community
policies to take account of regional priorities and to show in what way the
specific Community actions financed from the non-quota section of the
Regional Fund might contribute to the smooth development of the relevant
Community policies (e.g. enlargement policy) or might mitigate the worst
effects on the regions of those policies (for example in the case of
restructuring of crisis sectors). - 2 -
5. From the point of view of demand for regional statistics, the most important
analytic task of the Directorate General for Regional Policy is the
preparation of the Periodic Report on the social and economic situation
of the regions of the Community. This Report was called for in Council
Resolution of 6 February 1979 and the first Periodic Report 'The Regions
of Europe' was sent to the Council in December 1980; the next report is
due to be completed for mid-1983.
6. On the basis of the Periodic Report, the Commission prepares Guidelines
on the priorities for Community regional policy and any necessary draft
legislation to implement those priorities. The \ew Guidelines of
July 1981 and the draft revision of the Regional Fund Regulation
represent the results of the review of Community regional policy which
followed the completion of the First Report.
7. In developing Community regional policy, DG XVI is concerned to answer
a number of questions, for which availability of regional statistics
can help find answers. Some of these are :
to what extent do regional disparities exist in the Community ?
what is the nature of the economic and social problem existing in
the weaker regions ?
what are the likely prospects of regional economic and social
development in the coming years?
- how are regional disparities affected by
economic developments generally,
national and Community policies?
* 0J No. C 36 of 9.2.1979
** C0M(81) 152 final of 24.7.1981
***) 589l of 26.10.1981