
Article 1 
Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 is hereby amended as follows:

1.. Article 4(2) shall be replaced by the following:
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2. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, the Czech Republic, Germany, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia and the United Kingdom may start the annual cross-sectional and longitudinal data collection in 2005.This authorisation is subject to the condition that those Member States shall supply comparable data for the year 2004 for the cross-sectional common European Union indicators which were adopted by the Council before 1 January 2003 in the context of the open method of coordination and which can be derived on the basis of the EU-SILC instrument.';
2.. in Article 13, the following paragraphs shall be added:
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4. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, Estonia shall receive a financial contribution from the Community towards the cost of the work involved for the four years of data collection from 2005.
5. The financing for the year 2007 is yet to be ensured by a future Community programme.';
3.. Annex II shall be replaced by the text set out in the Annex to this Regulation.
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Strasbourg, 7 September 2005.
For the European Parliament
The President
J. BORRELL FONTELLES
For the Council
The President
C. CLARKE
ANNEX


‘ANNEX II 
 Households Persons aged 16 or over to be interviewed
Cross-sectional Longitudinal Cross-sectional Longitudinal
1 2 3 4
EU Member States
Belgium 4 750 3 500 8 750 6 500
Czech Republic 4 750 3 500 10 000 7 500
Denmark 4 250 3 250 7 250 5 500
Germany 8 250 6 000 14 500 10 500
Estonia 3 500 2 750 7 750 5 750
Greece 4 750 3 500 10 000 7 250
Spain 6 500 5 000 16 000 12 250
France 7 250 5 500 13 500 10 250
Ireland 3 750 2 750 8 000 6 000
Italy 7 250 5 500 15 500 11 750
Cyprus 3 250 2 500 7 500 5 500
Latvia 3 750 2 750 7 650 5 600
Lithuania 4 000 3 000 9 000 6 750
Luxembourg 3 250 2 500 6 500 5 000
Hungary 4 750 3 500 10 250 7 750
Malta 3 000 2 250 7 000 5 250
Netherlands 5 000 3 750 8 750 6 500
Austria 4 500 3 250 8 750 6 250
Poland 6 000 4 500 15 000 11 250
Portugal 4 500 3 250 10 500 7 500
Slovenia 3 750 2 750 9 000 6 750
Slovakia 4 250 3 250 11 000 8 250
Finland 4 000 3 000 6 750 5 000
Sweden 4 500 3 500 7 500 5 750
United Kingdom 7 500 5 750 13 750 10 500
Total for EU Member States 121 000 90 750 250 150 186 850
Iceland 2 250 1 700 3 750 2 800
Norway 3 750 2 750 6 250 4 650
Total including Iceland and Norway 127 000 95 200 260 150 194 300
NB: The reference is to the effective sample size, which is the size required if the survey were based on simple random sampling (design effect in relation to the “risk of poverty rate” variable = 1,0). The actual sample sizes will have to be larger to the extent that the design effects exceed 1,0 and to compensate for all kinds of non-response. Furthermore, the sample size refers to the number of valid households which are households for which, and for all members of which, all or nearly all the required information has been obtained’
