Article 4 Quality assessment

For the purpose of this Regulation, the quality criteria set out in Article 12(1) of Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 shall apply to the data to be transmitted in accordance with Article 3 of this Regulation.

Member States shall provide the Commission (Eurostat) with a report on the quality of the data to be transmitted in accordance with Article 3.

In applying the quality criteria referred to in paragraph 1 to the data covered by this Regulation, the modalities, structure, periodicity and assessment indicators of the quality reports shall be defined by the Commission by means of implementing acts. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 8(2).

The Commission (Eurostat) shall assess the quality of the data transmitted.