Brussels, 3.9.2025

COM(2025) 590 final

ANNEX

to the

REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL

establishing the Single Market and Customs Programme for the period 2028-2034 and repealing Regulations (EU) 2021/444, (EU) 2021/690, (EU) 2021/785, (EU) 2021/847 and (EU) 2021/1077

{SEC(2025) 592 final} - {SWD(2025) 592 final} - {SWD(2025) 593 final}


ANNEX
Programming framework for European statistics

The priorities of the programming framework for the development, production and dissemination of European statistics within the meaning of Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 are the following:

revamping European business statistics and enriching the statistical evidence on the competitiveness and productivity of European businesses including small and medium-sized enterprises, and small mid-caps enterprises, innovation, trade and global value chains while limiting response burden;

providing comprehensive macro-economic statistics underpinning EU economic governance, investments, the Excessive Deficit Procedure, EU own resources, and updating the European System of Accounts to better reflect wellbeing and sustainability in macroeconomic statistics in line with the global System of National Accounts 2025 (SNA2025);

providing comparable European statistics on defence expenditure and investments, and the defence and space industries;

improving the timeliness of housing price statistics and providing statistics on commercial real estate developments;

enriching the statistical evidence regarding affordable and sustainable housing;

implementing the programme of social statistics including ad-hoc modules for the EU labour force survey and statistics on income and living conditions;

consolidating statistics on environment, climate change mitigation and adaptation, green transition, circularity, clean technologies, agriculture, fisheries, energy, transport and regional developments;

providing statistics on demographic changes in the EU, and on immigration and emigration, based on improved and harmonised methodologies and re-using administrative and new digital data sources;

fostering innovation in the European Statistical System and reducing the statistical reporting burden by leveraging new data sources, including from the EU’s Earth observation flagship Copernicus and ethical use of digital technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), implementing the once-only principle and further digitalisation of data collections, and revising the EU statistical legislative framework;

developing quality frameworks that cater for multisource and AI-based statistics and enhancing the contribution to the Common European Data Spaces in line with statistical principles and legislation;

improving dissemination and communication of European statistics including through AI-based search engines, enhancing their role in the fight against disinformation and improving data literacy;

supporting national statistical authorities of the enlargement countries in the accession path to the EU and strengthening international statistical partnerships;

continuous dialogue with users and horizon scanning to better understand evolving data needs and to adapt priorities to keep European statistics relevant and trustworthy.