Article 1

Subject matter

This Regulation establishes uniform conditions for the breakdowns of data required by Regulation (EU) No 1260/2013, as well as for deadlines and for revisions of those data.

Article 2

Definitions

Definitions laid down in Regulation (EU) No 1260/2013 shall apply. In addition, for the purpose of this Regulation, the following definitions shall also apply:

(a) ‘age’ at a given date (either reference time or date of the event) means the interval of time between the date of birth and the given date, expressed in completed years;

(b) ‘country of birth’ of an individual means the country of usual residence (in its current borders, if the information is available) of the individual’s mother at the time of the delivery, or, failing this, the country (in its current borders, if the information is available) in which the birth took place;

(d) ‘citizenship’ means the particular legal bond between an individual and his or her State, acquired by birth or naturalisation, whether by declaration, choice, marriage or other means according to national legislation;

(e) ‘live-birth order’ means the numerical order of the live birth being recorded in relation to all previous live births of the mother;

(f) ‘month of occurrence’ means the calendar month of occurrence of the event;

(g) ‘year of birth’ means the calendar year of occurrence of the birth;

(h) ‘Member State’ means a country that is a member of the European Union at the end of the reference year.

Article 3

Breakdowns and statistical tables

The breakdowns of the data to be provided to the Commission (Eurostat) under Regulation (EU) No 1260/2013 are set out in Annex I.

The statistical tables to be provided to the Commission (Eurostat) are set out in Annex II.

Article 4

Deadlines

1. Each year Member States shall provide the Commission (Eurostat) with provisional data on total population, total live births and total deaths at national level, as described in Annex II, point 1, within six months of the end of the reference year.

2. Each year Member States shall provide the Commission (Eurostat) with data at national and regional level as described in Annex II, point 2, and related standard reference metadata (in the metadata structure definition defined for the Euro SDMX Metadata Structure) for the reference year within 12 months of the end of the reference year.

3. Each year Member States shall provide the Commission (Eurostat) with provisional monthly data on total live births and total deaths, as described in Annex II, point 3, each covering at least the first six months of the reference year, by 30 November of the same reference year.

Article 5

Data revisions

1. Member States shall inform the Commission (Eurostat) of any planned revision of the data supplied under Article 4(2) no later than one week before the release of the revised data in the Member State concerned.

2. Member States shall provide any revised data to the Commission (Eurostat) no later than one week after the release of these data.