
Article 1 
Derogations from Implementing Regulations (EU) 2019/2240 and (EU) 2019/2241 as set out in the Annex are granted to the Member States listed therein.
Article 2 
This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of Denmark, the Republic of Croatia, the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Republic of Poland.
Done at Brussels, 9 December 2020.
For the Commission
Paolo GENTILONI
Member of the Commission
ANNEX

Provision concerned Member State Derogation period granted Scope of the derogation
Article 3 (Descriptions of variables) and Annex I Croatia 1 year (2021) Transmission of the variables INCGROSS (Gross monthly pay from the main job) and INCGROSS_F (Flag on gross monthly pay from the main job) as a net instead of a gross amount
Article 3 (Descriptions of variables) and Annex I Croatia 1 year (2021) Transmission of the variable HATFIELD (Field of the highest level of education successfully completed) in accordance with ISCED-F 2013, 2-digit coding instead of 3-digit coding.
Article 6(2) (Detailed sample characteristics) The Netherlands 1 year (2021) Uniform sample distribution:
— The full national sample of the reference year will not be uniformly distributed between all the reference quarters of the year.
— In each reference quarter the full quarterly sample will not be uniformly distributed between all the reference weeks of the quarter.
Article 9(2) (Common standards for editing, imputation, weighting and estimation) Poland 2 years (2021–2022) Transmission of the variable INCGROSS (Gross monthly pay from the main job) without statistical imputation for item non-response.Transmission of corrected data with imputation for years 2021 and 2022 will take place together with the transmission of the data for 2023, namely in March 2025.


Provision concerned Member State Derogation period granted Scope of the derogation
Article 4(1)(a) (Transmission deadlines) Denmark 3 years (2021–2023) Monthly unemployment data for the month of November shall be transmitted by 4 January of the following year.
Article 6(1) (Sources and methods) Croatia 1 year (2021) Description of the sources and methods used for the compilation of the monthly unemployment inputs shall be transmitted by 31 December 2021.
