QUAL@ESS Vision Supporting Framework Action 1: Report from 1st meeting of Steering Committee, next steps Working Group on Quality in Statistics Luxembourg, 6 December 2016 Kirsi Kärkkäinen, Eurostat Unit D.4 Quality management; GFS

Steering Committee QUAL Call for interest summer 2016 Composition: 10 members: Austria, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Greece, Italy, Poland, Spain, UK 1st meeting: 10/11/2016 Eurostat 2

Outcomes - mandate Action 1 Identifying quality developments within the ESS Vision 2020 Portfolio that might/should have an impact on the current ESS quality management framework Making proposals and recommendations, including to the High-level Group on Quality throughout its mandate, on areas where the common quality framework of the ESS could evolve as well as on the possible revision of the European Statistics Code of Practice and the QAF of the ESS, based on developments in the ESS Vision 2020 Portfolio of projects and frameworks Advising ESS Vision 2020 Portfolio projects and frameworks in work related to quality Eurostat 3

Outcomes (2) Mechanism to monitor and report on developments in ESS Vision 2020 Portfolio of projects and frameworks: ESS Vision 2020 Portfolio project / framework specific monitoring and reporting by designated SC-QUAL members KQE document – starting point for monitoring – to be replaced by project-specific Excel sheets and a Master sheet for reporting to the HLG-Q Eurostat 4

Next steps Work on Action 1 aligned with the HLG-Q: Reporting to the HLG-Q meeting in February 2017 Video conference: end January 2017 Reporting to the HLG-Q meeting in spring 2017 Meeting: spring 2017 Eurostat 5

Thank you for your attention Eurostat 6