Registers, MNEs and consistency in business statistics

2026-07-22

Globalisation and the increasing complexity of the activities of MNEs pose challenges to the production of business statistics and to the correct and consistent reflection of MNEs’ activities in national statistics. For efficiency and consistency reasons, the globalisation-related activities, including the EuroGroups Register (EGR), European profiling, national profiling, national Large Cases Units (LCUs), and the Early Warning System (EWS), need to take place in a systematic and coordinated way. Participation in the European profiling programme seeks to benefit the national statistical production system, not only by improving the quality of the national business register but also by serving identified clients, both in business and trade statistics as well as in macroeconomic statistics. Participation in the action on “European profiling on the structure of the Top tier MNE groups” benefits for profiling process and ensure that a higher number of Top tier MNE groups are profiled. SDA see the importance to smoothly implement new classification NACE Rev. 2.1. in all the relevant methodological, organisational and technical aspects. The first step has been to prepare for the reclassification of statistical units in the business register. The implementation of the new version of the NACE classification of economic activities into the national statistical business registers is a challenging task so we seek to Implement the new version of the NACE Rev. 2.1 classification of economic activities into the national statistical business register with high quality for users and to implement the use of new technologies for automatic re-coding of the economic activities.

Lithuania

2025-10-15