S.I. No. 566/2022 - Statistics (Outward Foreign Affiliates) Order 2022

1. Information regarding the following, as it relates to the institutional unit concerned during the year to which the information relates

(a) whether the institutional unit has foreign affiliates;

(b) where the institutional unit has a foreign affiliate, whether the location of the ultimate controlling institutional unit of the foreign affiliate is in the State;

(c) where the location of the ultimate controlling institutional unit of a foreign affiliate is not in the State, the location of the ultimate controlling institutional unit;

(d) where the institutional unit is the ultimate controlling unit of a foreign affiliate, the following particulars in relation to that institutional unit

(i) the principal business activity in which it is engaged;

(ii) the accounting year to which the information relates;

(iii) the currency in which the amounts are expressed;

(e) where the institutional unit is the ultimate controlling unit of a foreign affiliate, the following particulars in relation to the foreign affiliate

(i) name;

(ii) the principal business activity in which it is engaged;

(iii) the percentage shareholding which the institutional unit holds in the foreign affiliate;

(iv) turnover;

(v) the number of persons engaged by it;

(vi) personnel costs;

(vii) gross investment by it in tangible goods;

(viii) labour costs.

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

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

9 November, 2022.

MICHEÁL MARTIN,

Taoiseach.

1 OJ No. L 327, 17.12.2019, p. 1

2 OJ. No. L 271, 18.8.2020, p. 1

2 OJ. No. L 271, 18.8.2020, p. 1

2 OJ. No. L 271, 18.8.2020, p. 1

1 OJ No. L 327, 17.12.2019, p. 1

3 OJ No. L 339, 24.9.2021, p. 33

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

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

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

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

3. This Order applies to an institutional unit that is classified for statistical purposes under section B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R or S of NACE Rev. 2, as 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 institutional units 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, in relation to each year in the period from 2021 to 2025, is hereby prescribed.

SCHEDULE

Article 4

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

11

th November,

2022.

I, MICHEÁL MARTIN, 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 full effect to Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2019

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, as amended by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1197 of 30 July 2020

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in so far as it relates to Article 6(1)(d) thereof, hereby order as follows