Commission Activities Eurostat : Latest developments Item 3 - Recent developments - Eurostat Commission Activities Eurostat : Latest developments

Item 3 - Recent developments - Eurostat European statistics A Vision for the next decade Communication 404 from the Commission to the European Parliament and Council, 10/8/2009 Re-engineering of social statistics More focus on wellbeing indicators (Stiglitz Commission, GDP and Beyond) More use of data linking / data matching? For further development and discussion Regulation on European statistics Regulation No. 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council, 11/3/2009 18-19/2/2010 Working Group, Statistics on Crime and Criminal Justice i

Regulation (EC) no 223/2009 on European Statistics, 11 March 2009 Item 3 - Recent developments - Eurostat Regulation (EC) no 223/2009 on European Statistics, 11 March 2009 Basis for the development, production and dissemination of statistics within the European Statistical System (ESS) Binding rules on statistical principles to be followed, in particular the European Statistics Code of Practice setting quality criteria Definition of the ESS and its partners Establishment of the ESSC – representatives of the national statistical authorities Roles of European Statistical Governance Advisory Board (ESGAB) to advise on implementation of Code of Practice and European Statistical Advisory Committee (ESAC) to represent user needs Specific chapter on statistical confidentiality/protection and transmission of confidential data 18-19/2/2010 Working Group, Statistics on Crime and Criminal Justice i

Crime statistics : Working Group & Task Forces Item 3 - Recent developments - Eurostat Crime statistics : Working Group & Task Forces The Working Group was set up as referred to Commission Communication of 7/8/2006 (Action Plan 2006-2010) and in the Commission Decision setting up the Expert Group Annual meetings of Working Group held 2007, 2008, 2009 Regular reports to annual meeting of Directors of Social Statistics; most recently a report on implementation of the Action Plan, September 2009 Mandate of the Working Group also includes the option: “To identify specific tasks within the European Statistical System relevant to the Action Plan for delegation to task forces, and to propose the mandates and members of such task forces.” Two task forces are currently operational victimisation crime data availability 18-19/2/2010 Working Group, Statistics on Crime and Criminal Justice i

Item 3 - Recent developments - Eurostat Meetings held in 2009 Working Group, Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics, 19-20 February Task Force, Victimisation surveys, 4-5 June Task Force, Crime Data Availability, 19-20 October 18-19/2/2010 Working Group, Statistics on Crime and Criminal Justice i

Item 3 - Recent developments - Eurostat Council and Commission programmes relating to crime and criminal justice The Hague Programme : Strengthening freedom, security and justice in the European Union, adopted by the European Council November 2004 Developing a comprehensive and coherent EU strategy to measure crime and criminal justice: An EU Action Plan 2006 – 2010, Communication from the Commission, COM/2006/0437 The Stockholm Programme : An open and secure Europe serving and protecting the citizens, adopted by the European Council December 2009 18-19/2/2010 Working Group, Statistics on Crime and Criminal Justice i

Item 3 - Recent developments - Eurostat Statistical activities under the Stockholm programme 4.3.2 More effective crime prevention Continue developing statistical tools to measure crime and criminal activities Reflect on how to further develop, after 2010, the actions outlined and partly implemented in the EU Action Plan Set up an Observatory for the Prevention of Crime (OPC), the tasks of which will be to collect analyse and disseminate knowledge on crime (including organised crime (including statistics) Commission to submit a proposal on setting up the OPC by 2013 at the latest 18-19/2/2010 Working Group, Statistics on Crime and Criminal Justice i

Statistical work programme of the Commission, 2010 Item 3 - Recent developments - Eurostat Statistical work programme of the Commission, 2010 Theme 1.10 Statistics on crime and criminal justice Data collection on police-reported crime, police numbers and prison population Extend to reference year 2008 Quality improvements in data and metadata Development of indicators in new areas of crime, in conjunction with Expert Group on data needs Collaboration with other international organisations on development of a crime classification system Victimisation Finalise pilot exercises in Member States and evaluate results Prepare proposal for EU security survey 18-19/2/2010 Working Group, Statistics on Crime and Criminal Justice i

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