Gross National Income Expert Group (GNIG) - Main contents

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Abbreviation: GNIG

Policy Area: Statistics

Lead DG: Eurostat

Type: Formal;Permanent

Scope: Limited

Mission: To advise the Commission on, and to express its views regarding, the comparability, reliability and exhaustiveness of gross national income (‘GNI’) calculations, to examine any issues in the implementation of Regulation (EU) No 2019/516 and to issue annual opinions on the appropriateness of the GNI data submitted by the Member States for own resources purposes.

Task: Assist the Commission in relation to the implementation of existing Union legislation, programmes and policies;Assist the Commission in the preparation of delegated acts;Assist the Commission in the preparation of legislative proposals and policy initiatives;Coordinate with Member States, exchange of views;Provides expertise to the Commission when preparing implementing measures, i.e. before the Commission submits these draft measures to a comitology committee

Contact: -

Publication in RegExp: 22/05/2019

Creating Act: -

Last updated: 22/06/2021

Additional Information

Activity report: All relevant documents related to the activities of the expert group can be found at the provided link.

https://circabc.europa.eu/w/browse/7eb29b7b-33b0-4c9f-851b-e370277bb9e5

Selection procedure: The members of this expert group are the Member States' national statistical authorities. EFTA countries and the European Court of Auditors (ECA) are observers.

Rules of procedure: The Rules of Procedure are uploaded as approved by the members of the group.

Rules of procedure of the GNI Expert Group (GNIG).pdf (approx. 97 kb)

Subgroups

GNIG SG Exhaustiveness