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 If your work is significantly affected by the deletion/simplification in a negative sense, could you please describe brie
i) Detailed data by PRODCOM 8-digit are crucial for market research and analysis of market position. It would be helpful to ge
The very detailed 8-digit PRODCOM list is utmost important for market analysis and benchmarks, especially in combination wi
any employees is strongly increasing over the last years. This is an important structural change in the business population. For this reason

Cerame-Unie feedback: Reduction of the number of heading of the "PRODCOM list" for which production has to be reported (f
 could you please describe briefly why?
position. It would be helpful to get, in addition to, data accumulated by CPA-6-digit-codes. We need to underline that CPA-6-digit-codes are
arks, especially in combination with the CN. Furthermore, the PRODCOM list is the basis for the differentiation of economic activities and de
siness population. For this reason, we would strongly appreciate if Eurostat produced a separate size class (0 employees). In addition, in or

h production has to be reported (from 3800 to approximately 2000), generally based on the CPA 6-digit level would significantly affect the w
 at CPA-6-digit-codes are useful only in addition to NACE 4-digit codes especially for the smaller Member States. Otherwise it difficult to get
economic activities and details of quantities on a very low level. The loss of this information would devalue this statistics to a high degree.
loyees). In addition, in order to analyse international differences and developments of larger sized SMEs we would prefer to have two sepa

d significantly affect the way we collect statistics and used for some among the 9 ceramic sectors.
Otherwise it difficult to get a picture of production values by subsectors. It should be discussed to change confidentiality rules from active co
istics to a high degree.
d prefer to have two separate size classes (250-499 and 500+) instead of the single size class 250+.
tiality rules from active confidentiality to a passive confidentiality as it is the case for trade statistics.