1. TG EHIS January Item of the agenda Information from Eurostat Christine COIN, Eurostat

2. Contents Eurostat reorganisation from 1/1/2012 Wiesbaden memorandum
Revised legislative policy for the ESS
Revision of Regulation on European Statistics
TG EHIS, January 2012

3. Eurostat reorganisation from 1/1/2012
Unit F5 «Education, Health and Social protection»
Within Directorate F in charge of Social Statistics:
Unit F1: Modernisation and coordination
Unit F2: Population
Unit F3: Labour market
Unit F4: Quality of Life
Unit F5: Education, Health and Social protection
TG EHIS, January 2012

4. Eurostat reorganisation from 1/1/2012
Education and health:
Both surveys data and administrative data
Social protection statistics:
ESSPROS
TG EHIS, January 2012

5. Wiesbaden memorandum
Adopted by the DGINS Conference on 28th September 2011
« New conceptual design for household and social statistics »
Agreement in particular on:
Joint progress towards a common architecture for European social statistics
Core social surveys providing data (including microdata) should be streamlined
Directors of Social Statistics (DSS) to drive the modernisation process
TG EHIS, January 2012

6. Wiesbaden memorandum
State of play related to modernisation of social statistics and specific situation of EHIS:
To be discussed under Item 5. of the agenda
TG EHIS, January 2012

7. Revised legislative policy for the ESS
Drivers for the revision
Eurostat « Vision »: production methods for EU statistics a vision for the next decade (2009)
EU legislative process heavy and slow
Enforcement procedures not used
Increasing need for flexibility
Statistical technicalities in the hands of statisticians
An effective priority setting mechanism in the ESS
TG EHIS, January 2012

8. Revised legislative policy for the ESS
Proposal (agreed within the ESSC in 2011)
Move towards a more frequent use of soft law instruments such as ESS agreements
Towards framework legal instruments covering broader areas of statistics (or cross-cutting and infrastructure related issues)
Sunset clauses introduced in legislation
TG EHIS, January 2012

9. Revision of Regulation on European Statistics
Regulation (EC- N)223/2009 of the EP and Council of 11 March 2009 on European statistics under revision
An amendment relates to reinforced coordination, responsibility of the NSI for the development, production and dissemination of European statistics
TG EHIS, January 2012