
COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 68/2014 of 27 January 2014 amending Regulation (EU) No 141/2013 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1338/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on Community statistics on public health and health and safety at work, as regards statistics based on the European Health Interview Survey (EHIS) by reason of the accession of Croatia to the European Union (Text with EEA relevance) 

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1338/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on Community statistics on public health and health and safety at work, and in particular Article 9(1) thereof,
Whereas:

(1) Annex II to Commission Regulation (EU) No 141/2013 provides for the minimum effective sample size, calculated on the assumption of simple random sampling.

(2) It is necessary to adapt Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 141/2013 to take into account the accession of Croatia.

(3) Regulation (EU) No 141/2013 should therefore be amended accordingly.

(4) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the European Statistical System Committee,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1 
Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 141/2013 is replaced by the text set out in the Annex to this Regulation.
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth 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, 27 January 2014.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO
ANNEX


ANNEX II 

Final sample sizes to be achieved Persons aged 15 or over to be interviewed
EU Member States 
Belgium 6 500
Bulgaria 5 920
Czech Republic 6 510
Denmark 5 350
Germany 15 260
Estonia 4 270
Ireland 5 057
Greece 6 667
Spain 11 620
France 13 110
Croatia 5 000
Italy 13 180
Cyprus 4 095
Latvia 4 555
Lithuania 4 850
Luxembourg 4 000
Hungary 6 410
Malta 3 975
Netherlands 7 515
Austria 6 050
Poland 10 690
Portugal 6 515
Romania 8 420
Slovenia 4 486
Slovakia 5 370
Finland 5 330
Sweden 6 200
United Kingdom 13 085
Total of EU Member States 199 990
Switzerland 5 900
Iceland 3 940
Norway 5 170
Total including Switzerland, Iceland and Norway 215 000
