The Commission shall submit to the ESS Committee its annual work programme by 30 April for the following year.
In preparing each annual work programme, the Commission shall ensure effective priority setting, including reviewing, reporting on statistical priorities and allocation of financial resources. The Commission shall take the utmost account of the comments of the ESS Committee. Each annual work programme shall be based on the European statistical programme and shall indicate, in particular:
the actions which the Commission considers to have priority, taking account of Union policy needs, national and Union financial constraints and the response burden;
initiatives regarding the review of priorities, including negative priorities, and the reduction of the burden on both data providers and producers of statistics; and
the procedures and any legal instruments envisaged by the Commission for implementation of the annual work programme.