Opinions and Correspondence - ESGAB
Opinion of the European Statistical Governance Advisory Board (ESGAB) concerning the implementation of the Commission's Commitment on Confidence 7 June 2018 (Commission Decision 2012/504 on Eurostat)
Summary - The Commission Decision 504 of 17 September 2012 on Eurostat states in its Whereas (4): "The present Decision should be regarded as a renewed commitment from the Commission on confidence in European statistics developed, produced and disseminated by Eurostat". According to Article 11(5) of Regulation 223/2009 (as amended in June 2015), "The Commitment established by the Commission shall be regularly monitored by the European Statistical Governance Board (ESGAB) […] ESGAB shall report to the European Parliament and the Council on the implementation of the Commitment by 9 June 2018". The Opinion published today presents key findings on the professional reputation of Eurostat, its independence, the high quality of European statistics and Eurostat's role as leader of the European Statistical System and service provider to other Commission services. However, ESGAB also sees room for improvement in several domains and thus makes 13 recommendations in areas such as procedures for pre-release access, timeliness of statistics, coordination of statistics produced by other Commission services, access to administrative records for statistical purposes, resources and recruitment/dismissal of the Eurostat Director General.
Opinion urging full implementation of the Hellenic Statistical Law (3832/2010) and Greece's commitment on confidence in statistics 24 March 2015
Opinion on compliance of senior appointments procedures in the German Bundesländer with the European Statistics Code of Practice - 13 October 2014 EN DE
ESGAB supports the "V6 joint statement calling authorities responsible for recruiting or dismissing practices to act in line with the principles of the European Statistics Code of Practice" of 10 October 2014. V6 is the association of six statistical societies from Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.
Opinion of the European Statistical Governance Advisory Board (ESGAB) on upholding the principles of the European Statistics Code of Practice in the implementation of Regulation (EU) No 549/2013 on the European system of national and regional accounts in the European Union (ESA 2010) - 5 September 2014
ESGAB supports the "Statement of the Members of the European Statistical System on recent developments concerning ELSTAT in Greece" - 7 February 2013
ESGAB opinion on the revision of the European Statistics Code of Practice - 15 June 2011
ESGAB letter in reply from BMI Rogall Grothe, 24th Januay of 2012 |
ESGAB letter to Germany - Niedersachsen case, 8th December of 2011 |
ESGAB letter to Greece, 31st October of 2011 |