
Article 1 
The programme of ad-hoc modules for the labour force sample survey, covering the years 2016 to 2018, as set out in the Annex, is hereby adopted.
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following that of 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 Brussels, 8 April 2013.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO
ANNEX
LABOUR FORCE SURVEY  1. 
List of variablesto be defined before December 2014.Reference period2016. Member States may provide data for all 52 weeks or for the second quarter of the year.Member States and regions concernedAll.Samplethe ad-hoc module sample should fulfil the requirements of Annex I, point 4, to Commission Regulation (EC) No 377/2008, i.e. the sample used to collect information on ad-hoc modules must also provide information on structural variables.Transmission of the resultsbefore 31 March 2017.
 2. 
List of variablesto be defined before December 2015.Reference period2017. Member States may provide data for all 52 weeks or for the second quarter of the year.Member States and regions concernedAll.Samplethe ad-hoc module sample should fulfil the requirements of Annex I, point 4, to Regulation (EC) No 377/2008, i.e. the sample used to collect information on ad-hoc modules must also provide information on structural variables.Transmission of the resultsbefore 31 March 2018.
 3. 
List of variablesto be defined before December 2016.Reference period2018. Member States may provide data for all 52 weeks or for the second quarter of the year.Member States and regions concernedAll.Samplethe ad-hoc module sample should fulfil the requirements of Annex I, point 4, to Regulation (EC) No 377/2008, i.e. the sample used to collect information on ad-hoc modules must also provide information on structural variables.Transmission of the resultsbefore 31 March 2019.
