
Article 1 
The common quality criteria and the structure of the quality reports concerning Purchasing Power Parities as provided for by Regulation (EC) No 1445/2007 shall be as 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 Brussels, 28 February 2011.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO
ANNEX
1. 
To fulfil the requirements of paragraph 5.3.1 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1445/2007, each Member State shall provide an inventory of sources and methods used in the Eurostat PPP exercise (hereinafter referred to as the ‘PPP inventory’).

The structure of the PPP inventory shall be based on the various items of basic information provided in the context of Regulation (EC) No 1445/2007, as follows:
 1.  2.  2.1. 

— Includes information on survey organisation, sampling, representativity, validation, temporal and spatial adjustment factors
 2.2. 

— Includes information on data sources and their quality, compliance with definitions, any adjustments made
 3. 

— Includes information on data sources and their quality, compliance with definitions, any adjustments made
 4.  4.1. 

— Includes information on survey organisation, sampling, representativity, validation
 4.2. 

— Includes information on survey organisation, data sources and their quality, representativity, validation
 5. 

— Includes information on data sources and their quality, compliance with definitions, any adjustments made

Each Member State shall provide an update of the PPP inventory in January each year, whenever changes to sources and methods used have occurred during the preceding year.

2. 
To fulfil the requirements of paragraph 5.3.3 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1445/2007, each Member State shall submit a report for each consumer goods price survey. The structure of the report shall be as follows:


1.. Pre-survey
2.. Price collection
3.. Intra-country validation
4.. Inter-country validation

The survey reports shall contain information complementary to the PPP inventories.

3. 
The criteria used in the assessment of the quality of the basic information provided shall be those laid down in Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on European statistics, in combination with the minimum standards laid down in Section 5 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1445/2007.
