S.I. No. 169/2014 - Statistics (Business Expenditure on Research and Development Survey) Order 2014.

1. This Order may be cited as the Statistics (Business Expenditure on Research and Development Survey) Order 2014.

2. (1) In this Order “survey” means the Business Expenditure on Research and Development Survey 2013/2014 that is conducted by the Central Statistics Office and is required by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No. 995/2012 of 26 October 2012

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(in this Article referred to as the “Commission Regulation”).

(2) A word or expression that is used in this Order and is also used in the Commission Regulation has, unless the contrary intention appears, the same meaning in this Order as it has in the Commission Regulation.

3. This Order applies to an undertaking that is required by the Central Statistics Office to participate in the survey and that is classified for statistical purposes under any of the sections of NACE Rev. 2 set out in Annex 1 to Regulation (EC) No. 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006

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.

4. Each undertaking to which this Order applies is required to provide information to the Central Statistics Office for the purposes of the survey, the general nature of which information is specified in the Schedule.

SCHEDULE

Article 4.

Information in relation to the years 2013 and 2014, regarding each of the following

(

a

) general information on the business activity;

(

b

) expenditure on in-house Research and Development (R&D) activity in 2013 and estimate of such expenditure for 2014;

(

c

) sources of funds for in-house R&D activity;

(

d

) type of in-house R&D activity in 2013;

(

e

) expenditure on R&D performed on behalf of an undertaking by other persons in 2013;

(

f

) in-house R&D personnel in 2013;

(

g

) recruitment of researchers;

(

h

) collaboration in R&D projects;

(

i

) R&D activity at local unit level.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

1 April 2014.

ENDA KENNY,

Taoiseach.

1 OJ No. L 299, 27.10.2012, p. 18

2 OJ No. L 393, 30.12.2006, p. 1

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

8

th April

, 2014.

I, ENDA KENNY , Taoiseach, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 25

(1) of the

Statistics Act 1993

(No. 21 of 1993) and for the purpose of giving further effect to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No. 995/2012 of 26 October 2012

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, hereby order as follows