S.I. No. 166/2021 - Statistics (Global Value Chains) Order 2021

1. Information in relation to the years 2018 to 2020 regarding the following, as it relates to the undertaking concerned

(a) the number of persons engaged at the end of the year 2020 per business function;

(b) international sourcing of business functions;

(c) motivations for, and barriers to, international sourcing;

(d) global value chain arrangements, including –

(i) the purchase of goods, materials and services from, and

(ii) the supply of goods, materials and services to,

undertakings outside the State;

(e) the impact of Covid-19 on international sourcing, turnover and global value chain arrangements in the year 2020;

(f) the impact of the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union on decisions relating to international sourcing to, and from, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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

GIVEN under my hand,

30 March, 2021.

JACK CHAMBERS,

Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach.

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

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

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

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

3. This Order applies to an undertaking that-

(a) engages 50 or more persons, and

(b) is classified for statistical purposes under section B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, or N 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 to which this Order applies to provide, once only and for the purposes of the survey, information the general nature of which is specified in the Schedule is hereby prescribed.

SCHEDULE

Article 4

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

9

th April,

2021.

I, JACK CHAMBERS, Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 25

(1) of the

Statistics Act 1993

(No. 21 of 1993) and the Statistics (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) (No. 2) Order 2020 (

S.I. No. 263 of 2020

), hereby order as follows