BAKGRUNN (fra kommisjonsforordningen)

(1) To ensure that the implementation of the income and living conditions domain is conducted accurately, the Commission should specify the technical items of the data sets on over-indebtedness, consumption and wealth.

(2) The income and living conditions domain provides the information required by the European Semester and the European Pillar of Social Rights, in particular on income distribution, poverty and social exclusion. It also provides information for other EU policies related to living conditions and poverty. There is a strong policy need for detailed information on over-indebtedness, consumption and wealth, in particular on reasons for over-indebtedness, elements of consumption and wealth, and the assessment of own needs. The data set provides information on material inequality and poverty and helps monitor transport poverty. Moreover, it allows statistical matching of data between income and the living conditions and consumption domains.

(3) To ensure that policy needs for better measuring energy poverty, especially household energy costs, are fulfilled, Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2052 (2) should be amended accordingly. The detailed topics ‘employment status’ and ‘housing conditions details, including deprivation and imputed rent’ should be amended to respond to new data needs.

(4) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the European Statistical System Committee established under Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council (3),