AI-assisted research summary: Certain undertakings must provide one-time survey information about innovation and related business topics listed in the Schedule.
S.I. No. 209/2025 - Statistics (Community Innovation Survey) Order 2025 Download PDF Ãoslódáil PDF Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in “Iris Oifigiúil” of 27 th May, 2025. I, MICHEÃL MARTIN, Taoiseach, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 25 (1) of the Statistics Act 1993 (No. 21 of 1993) and, other than in relation to subparagraph (j) of paragraph 1 and paragraph 2 of the Schedule to the following order, for the purpose of giving full effect to Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2019 in so far as it relates to paragraphs 1(b) and (c) and paragraph 2(d) of Article 6 thereof, hereby order as follows: 1. This Order may be cited as the Statistics (Community Innovation Survey) Order 2025. 2. (1) In this Order – “Regulation” means Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2019 , as amended by Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/1704 of 14 July 2021 “survey” means the Community Innovation Survey that is conducted by the Central Statistics Office for the purposes of obtaining, including for the purposes of compliance with the Regulation, information set out in the Schedule. (2) A word or expression that is used in this Order and also used in the Regulation has the same meaning in this Order as in the Regulation, except where the context otherwise requires. 3. This Order applies to an undertaking that – (a) engages 10 or more persons, and (b) is classified for statistical purposes under class 03.30 of section A, section B, C, D, E, G, H, J, K, L or N or class 91.30 of section S of NACE Rev. 2.1, as set out in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No. 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 , as amended by Regulation (EC) No. 295/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2008 , Regulation (EU) No. 70/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 January 2012 , Regulation (EU) 2019/1243 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 and Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/137 of 10 October 2022 4. A requirement on undertakings to which this Order applies to provide, once only and for the purposes of the survey, information the general nature of which is specified in the Schedule is hereby prescribed. 1. Information in relation to the years 2022 to 2024 regarding the following, as it relates to the undertaking concerned: (a) general information on the business activity; (b) product (good or service) innovation; (c) process innovation; (d) ongoing or abandoned innovation activities for product and process innovations; (e) business finance for innovation activities, expenditures and tax incentives for product and process innovations; (f) co-operation for product and process innovations; (g) factors hampering innovation activities; (h) intellectual property rights; (i) turnover and employment; (j) corporate responsibility and sustainability; (k) climate change; (l) innovations with environmental benefits; (m) non-innovators. 2. Particulars of the time taken to complete the form, questionnaire or other record prepared by the Director General for the collection of information referred to in paragraph 1. GIVEN under my Official Seal, 21 May, 2025. MICHEÃL MARTIN, 1 OJ No. L 327, 17.12.2019, p. 1 1 OJ No. L 327, 17.12.2019, p. 1 2 OJ No. L 339, 24.9.2021, p. 33 3 OJ No. L 393, 30.12.2006, p. 1 4 OJ No. L 97, 9.4.2008, p. 13 5 OJ No. L 32, 3.2.2012, p. 1 6 OJ No. L 198, 25.7.2019, p. 241 7 OJ No. L 19, 20.1.2023, p. 5