S.I. No. 157/2016 - Statistics (Business Expenditure on Research and Development Survey) Order 2016.

1. This Order may be cited as the Statistics (Business Expenditure on Research and Development Survey) Order 2016.

2. (1) In this Order—

“Commission Implementing Regulation” means Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No. 995/2012 of 26 October 20121;

“R&D” means research and development;

“survey” means the Business Expenditure on Research and Development Survey 2015/2016 that is conducted by the Central Statistics Office in order to obtain information on R&D, including for the purpose of compliance with the Commission Implementing Regulation.

(2) A word or expression that is used in this Order and also used in the Commission Implementing Regulation has the same meaning in this Order as in the Commission Implementing Regulation, except where the context otherwise requires.

3. Article 4 applies to an undertaking that is classified for statistical purposes under any section of NACE Rev. 2 set out in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No. 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006

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.

4. A requirement on undertakings referred to in Article 3 to provide, once only and for the purposes of the survey, information the general nature of which is specified in the Schedule is prescribed for the purposes of

section 25

of the

Statistics Act 1993

(No. 21 of 1993).

Schedule

Article 4.

Information regarding the following, as it relates to the undertaking concerned

(

a

) general information on the nature of its business activity in 2015;

(

b

) expenditure on in-house R&D activity in 2015;

(

c

) estimated expenditure on in-house R&D activity in 2016;

(

d

) sources of funds for in-house R&D activity performed in 2015;

(

e

) types of in-house R&D activity performed in 2015;

(

f

) the number of persons involved in in-house R&D activity in 2015, including, in relation to each such person, his or her role, qualifications and gender and the amount of time spent by him or her on that activity;

(

g

) R&D activity at local unit level in 2015;

(

h

) expenditure on R&D activity performed on behalf of the undertaking by other persons in 2015;

(

i

) by reference to the qualifications of the persons concerned, whether the undertaking is likely, in the period commencing on 1 January 2016 and ending on 31 December 2021, to increase the number of persons involved in in-house R&D activity;

(

j

) engagement in 2015 by the undertaking with other persons in joint R&D projects.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

8 April 2016.

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

12

th April

, 2016.

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, in relation to paragraphs (

a

) to (

g

) of the Schedule to the following Order, for the purpose of giving full effect to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No. 995/2012 of 26 October 2012

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in so far as it relates to Annex I of that Regulation, hereby order as follows