1.Member States shall transmit to Eurostat every quarter duly verified individual data corresponding to the variables referred to in Article 3 and listed in Annex I, without indicating the name, address or registration number.
Such transmission shall, where appropriate, include statistical data relating to previous quarters for which the data transmitted were provisional.
2.The Commission shall, by means of implementing acts, adopt the arrangements for transmitting the data referred to in paragraph 1, including, where appropriate, the statistical tables based on those data. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 9(2).
3.The transmission of the data referred to in paragraph 1, shall take place within 5 months of the end of each quarterly period of observation.
The first transmission shall cover the first quarter of 1999.