The Federal Statistical Office (StBA) continuously collects and analyzes data on the German economy and other areas of society. The StBA prepares the data and makes it available. Among other things, these statistics serve as a basis for action by policymakers.
For this reason, there is an obligation for companies to provide information. Not all companies are surveyed. Depending on the industry, a different number of companies are selected at random. If your company receives a corresponding request from the StBA, you must provide the data requested.
This duty to provide information to the Federal Statistical Office applies to you as an operator of facilities
- for the production of natural gas
- for the transport of natural gas or biogas
- storage of natural gas.
Depending on the plant, you must provide the following information, among other things:
- Storage balance at the end of the month
- storage levels at the end of the month
- the amount of natural gas produced
- the quantity of own consumption
- imports and exports of natural gas in physical quantities, separated by neighboring countries
The obligation to provide information to the Federal Statistical Office also applies to companies importing or exporting:
- Lignite
- Lignite products
- hard coal and
- hard coal coke or briquettes.
These companies must provide the following information:
- the import and export of coal, separately by country and by coal type, energy content and border crossing value
- the quantity of stock, broken down by type of coal
- the quantity of coal sold, broken down by type of coal and, within each type of coal, by group of customers and consumers