Transcript Eurostat’s Technical Co-operation in the SPECA Region 7th SPECA Project Working Group on Statistics, Issyk-Kul, 28 August, 2012 Mariana Kotzeva, Eurostat Adviser Hors Classe.

Eurostat’s Technical Co-operation
in the SPECA Region
7th SPECA Project Working Group on Statistics,
Issyk-Kul, 28 August, 2012
Mariana Kotzeva, Eurostat
Adviser Hors Classe
Background
1.EU cooperation in Central Asia is structured around 2 overall
strategies:
 the EU-Central Asia Strategy approved by EU Heads of State
and Government in June 2007
 the EC Regional Strategy Paper.
2.From 2007 onwards the cooperation with the five Central Asian
countries is supported by the new Development Cooperation
Instrument (DCI).
3. Until 2006, the cooperation with Central Asia was covered by
the TACIS – Technical Assistance to the Commonwealth of
Independent States – instrument.
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Role of statistics in the EU Co-operation
in Central Asia
1. Statistics is gaining importance in the EU cooperation,
negotiations and assistance in both neighboring countries and
Central Asia:
 International comparability;
 Quality;
 Transparency
2. The progress in different areas is measured through statistics;
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Eurostat fields of activities
 Providing advice and expertise to Commission services (in
particular the External Relations Directorates-General, and the
delegations) and national statistical authorities with respect to
European Commission development and cooperation policies;
 Advocating and promoting good governance through statistics in
the EU's external relations policy in Central Asia;
 Monitoring and coordinating EU efforts to build statistical capacity in
Central Asia countries within the framework of international
commitments such as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs);
 Encouraging the application of ESS best practices in Central Asia
countries through mutual contacts, training, study visits and attendance
at meetings;
 Management of Commission's statistical relations with Central Asia
through the implementation of MoUs: follow-up and implementation
of road maps of MoUs (i.e. Kazakhstan) in support of the development
of national statistical systems of these countries in areas of joint
priority.
Supporting regional co-operation and building up a network of
experts in the field of statistics
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Cooperation activities:
Adapted Global Assessments of National
Statistical Systems
1. Goal:
to assess institutional aspects of national statistical system
and its capacity to produce and disseminate official statistics
in all relevant areas;
2. Results
• needed for the beneficiary countries to serve as a base
for better planning and priority setting
• Provide a good basis for planning of capacity building
activities in the statistical area in the these countries.
3. AGAs in the SPECA Region
(Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan)
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Co-operation Activities:
Annual High-level Seminars for senior NSI
management of 11 countries in Eastern Europe,
Caucasus and Central Asia countries
 Statistical Classification of Economic Activities (NACE) and
Statistical Classification of Productions by Activity (CPA) –
Tashkent, 2008;
 Coordinating role of National Statistical Institutes in the National
Statistical Systems, Cologne, Germany, 2010
 Quality Matters in Statistics‚ June 2011, Athens, Greece
 The EFTA / Eurostat / UNECE High-level Seminar on
"Streamlining Statistical Production" July 2011 in Zlatibor, Serbia;
 'Quality in Statistics: Metadata‘, 7-29 June 2012, Tbilisi, Georgia
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Co-operation Activities:
Subject matter seminars and projects
 Analysis and dissemination for water statistics on specific
Central Asian countries: increase the capacity of target
countries to improve environmental policies trough reliable
statistics; to assist the EC in developing programmes on
environmental issues for Central Asia on the basis of better
water statistics.
 Providing training in regional workshops jointly organized with
other international organizations on national accounts,
economic statistics;
 Bilateral projects and initiatives of Members States and
SPECA countries to address country specific needs;
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Future co-operation prospects
and challenges
 The importance of institutional and legal set up and quality
management in capacity building for SPECA countries;
 Modernizing statistical production based on data integration
and use and reuse of various data sources including
administrative ones;
 The need for making up statistical capacity building
indispensable part of public administration reforms;
 Building up ownership of the reform process as a precondition
for sustainability of the achievements;
 Regional co-operation as facilitator of the development of the
national statistical systems;
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Recent ESS developments
and the Co-operation in the SPECA region
 Quality Management;
 New Production Method of European Statistics:
Vision for next decade;
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Code of Practice and its implementation
 Aim
 Example
 Compliance
 Recent changes
 New indicators
 Publication
 Quality assurance framework
 Process-specific quality assurance
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Major European Quality Initiatives
1. The European Conferences on Quality 2001 – 2012
2. European Statistics Code of Practice 2005
3. New European Statistical Law 2009
4. Sponsorship on Quality 2009 – 2011
• Theme I: Revised the Code of Practice
• Theme II: Developed the Quality Assurance Framework
• Theme III: Made recommendations on quality reporting
(communicating quality)
5. Communication 211 “Towards robust quality management for
European Statistics” in 2011 (preventive quality management,
revision of the Statistical Law, Commitments of Confidence in
Statistics
6. Revised Code of Practice 2011
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Thank you for your attention!
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 http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/
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