S.I. No. 3/2020 - Statistics (Business Expenditure on Research and Development Survey) Order 2020

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

(

a

) the nature of its business activity insofar as it relates to R&D in 2019;

(

b

) expenditure on in-house R&D activity in 2019;

(

c

) estimated expenditure on in-house R&D activity in 2020;

(

d

) sources of funds for in-house R&D activity performed in 2019 and the amount in euro from each source concerned;

(

e

) categories of in-house R&D activity performed in 2019 and the expenditure on each category concerned;

(

f

) the number of persons involved in in-house R&D activity in 2019 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 2019;

(

h

) expenditure on R&D activity performed on behalf of the undertaking by other persons in 2019;

(

i

) by reference to the qualifications of the persons concerned, whether the undertaking is likely, in the period commencing on 1 January 2020 and ending on 31 December 2025 to increase the number of persons involved in in-house R&D activity;

(

j

) engagement in 2019 by the undertaking with other persons in joint R&D projects.

2. Information regarding the time taken by the undertaking concerned to complete the form, questionnaire or other record prepared by the Director General for the collection of information referred to in paragraph 1.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

9 January 2020.

LEO VARADKAR

Taoiseach.

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

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

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

3 OJ No. L 97, 9.4.2008, p. 13.

4 OJ No. L 32, 3.2.2012, p. 1.

5 OJ No. L 198, 25.7.2019, p. 241.

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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, as amended by Regulation (EC) No. 295/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2008

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, Regulation (EU) No. 70/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 January 2012

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and Regulation (EU) 2019/1243 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019

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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

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

14

th January,

2020.

I, LEO VARADKAR, 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 subparagraphs (a) to (g) of paragraph 1 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