Transcript 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.

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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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What is the ENP?
 A specific policy for the neighbours of
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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
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ENP Instruments
 Replaces Tacis
 All partners are eligible for support
 Focus on supporting the implementation
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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.
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ENPI will support
 Sustainable development
 Fighting poverty
 Measures leading to progressive
participation in the EU’s internal market
 Legislative approximation
 Regulatory convergence
 Institution building
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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
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ENP objectives (cont.)
 Harmonisation to European or
international standards
 Strategy for strengthening the
statistical system;
 Collect and disseminate data from the
countries
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Main statistical activities foreseen
 Diagnosis of the present situation of
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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
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Conclusions
As a good neighbour, the ESS
wants to share its experience
with its partners, to help them
build up a modern statistical
system
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Thank you for Attention!
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Unit E4: Statistical Cooperation with European and
Mediterranean Countries
Unit E5: International Statistical Cooperation
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