European Statistical Cooperation Joint EFTA/ECE/SSCU seminar “Economic Globalisation: a Challenge for Official Statistics” 3-6 July 2007, Kiev Inna Steinbuka Director of Economic and Regional Statistics Eurostat

Presentation’s Highlights Statistical integration in the European Union Statistical Cooperation in the Framework of the European Neighbourhood Policy 2

EUROSTAT’s mission: to provide the EU with a high quality statistical service A statistical service: to provide rough statistical data with ‘metadata’ The quality of data The user community 3

The European Statistical System ESS A network of competent national government bodies ESTAT Focal point for the ESS CPS Co-ordinate the multi-annual statistical programmes CEIES Give opinion on the relevance of the Community statistical programmes 4

The European Statistics Code of Practice: main principles Minimum standards on the independence, integrity and accountability of the NSIs Institutional environment (Professional independence, Mandate for data collection, Adequacy of Resources, Quality commitment, Statistical confidentiality, Impartiality and objectivity) Statistical processes (Sound methodology, Appropriate statistical procedures, Non-excessive burden on respondents, Costs effectiveness) Statistical output (Relevance, Accuracy and relieability, Timeliness and punctuality, Coherence and comparability, Accessibility and clarity) 15 principles – 77 indicators 5

Why co-operation in Statistics? A key part of the Community Statistical programme 2008-2013 Basis for formulating EU policies towards partner countries Need for reliable indicators of the effect of international donors’ assistance ENP is the EU political background 6

What is the ENP? A specific policy for the neighbours of the enlarged EU, defined by geographical proximity …but not countries with an accession perspective (Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Croatia, the other Western Balkan countries… ) Based also on the Draft Constitutional Treaty 7

ENP Instruments Replaces Tacis All partners are eligible for support Focus on supporting the implementation of the ENP Action Plans Support through: Country programmes Multi-country programmes Thematic programmes Cross border co-operation programmes Trans-regional programmes involving Member States. 8

ENPI will support Sustainable development Fighting poverty Measures leading to progressive participation in the EU’s internal market Legislative approximation Regulatory convergence Institution building 9

ENP objectives in statistics Strengthen the statistical system of partner countries Strengthen the national standing of NSI’s Promote international comparability of the statistics produced Sustainable production of timely, reliable, objective and comparable statistics for relevant Community policy areas 10

ENP objectives (cont.) Harmonisation to European or international standards Strategy for strengthening the statistical system; Collect and disseminate data from the countries 11

Main statistical activities foreseen Diagnosis of the present situation of the statistical systems Global assessments of the statistical systems Assistance to developing a national strategy Identification of priority areas for harmonisation Gradual introduction of a progress monitoring tool Growth of data exchange 12

Conclusions As a good neighbour, the ESS wants to share its experience with its partners, to help them build up a modern statistical system 13

Thank you for Attention! Your Contacts in Eurostat Unit E4: Statistical Cooperation with European and Mediterranean Countries Unit E5: International Statistical Cooperation 14