(12)In order to simplify the existing legislation and foster harmonisation in scope, concepts, definitions and quality reporting, this Regulation should cover all European labour market statistics on businesses. Therefore, it is appropriate to repeal Council Regulation (EC) No 530/1999 7 and Regulations (EC) No 450/2003 8 and (EC) No 453/2008 9 of the European Parliament and of the Council and replace them by this Regulation.
Recital 12
- 8 Regulation (EC) No 450/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 February 2003 concerning the labour cost index ( OJ L 69, 13.3.2003, p. 1 , ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2003/450/oj ). ↩
- 9 Regulation (EC) No 453/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2008 on quarterly statistics on Community job vacancies ( OJ L 145, 4.6.2008, p. 234 , ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2008/453/oj ). ↩
- 7 Council Regulation (EC) No 530/1999 of 9 March 1999 concerning structural statistics on earnings and on labour costs ( OJ L 63, 12.3.1999, p. 6 , ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/1999/530/oj ). ↩