Registers, MNEs and consistency in business statistics, Area 2 of the action on “European Profiling on the structure and statistical units ‘enterprise’ of the Top tier MNE groups

2026-07-22

The project will facilitate further strengthen the cooperation between member states, and between different statistical domains. We expect that the findings will be useful as it enables the comprehensive understanding and evaluation of the good practices for possible future implementation. The project aims to address the validation issues of the resource data available for the compilation of business statistics. In 2026 in the course of the project all available data on the 27 MNE groups of which 24 foreign controlled groups will be uploaded into IPT, and all the data in IPT regarding the 3 domestically controlled groups will be updated using the SBR, SBS, survey and administrative data available obtained through current practices. The data uploaded by the partner countries will be used to validate the data available in the HCSO. Furthermore, as the project is focused on improving collaboration among member states, we will inform the other GDC countries of any discrepancies encountered regarding Enterprise (ENT) that needs overruling either in terms of employment, turnover or activity. We will also intend to clarify the reasons for the encountered discrepancies. Regarding the collection of UCI information for the reference year 2025 we intend to gain a clear picture on the possibilities of potential new data collection, the sources available and the reliability of the data collected. The project is a follow up to the MNE pilot from 2018-2019, and grant projects regarding EU profiling of MNEs from 2020-2024. It constitutes a part of the development process of a unified European Profiling Programme. The project focuses on the specific needs of the relevant domains in the selection of the MNEs to be analysed and in the profiling process as well.

Hungary

2026-02-01