Gross National Income Expert Group (GNIG)

Details

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

• 1. 

  Dit type werkgroepen van de Europese Unie adviseert de Europese Commissie bij het opstellen van nieuwe wetgeving en nieuw beleid. Daarnaast houden ze zich bezig met controle, coördinatie en samenwerking met de lidstaten. Expertgroepen kunnen tijdelijk of permanent zijn ingesteld. De deskundigen worden niet betaald, maar krijgen een onkostenvergoeding. Expertgroepen zijn samengesteld uit deskundigen van nationale overheden, vertegenwoordigers van belangenorganisaties en/of experts uit het bedrijfsleven.
   
• 2. 

  This directorate-general is responsible for providing the EU institutions with statistical data. Eurostat strives to harmonise the collection and processing of statistical information throughout the European Union in order to provide for meaningful statistical comparisons between member-states.