Opinions and Correspondence - ESGAB

Opinions

Opinion of the European Statistical Governance Advisory Board (ESGAB) on the
Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council
amending Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics, 6 September 2023.

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Opinion of the European Statistical Governance Advisory Board (ESGAB) concerning the forthcoming Data Act proposal, 5 August 2021.

Opinion of the European Statistical Governance Advisory Board (ESGAB) concerning the ESS response to the coronavirus pandemic, 3 June 2020

Opinion of the European Statistical Governance Advisory Board (ESGAB) concerning the implementation of the Commission's Commitment on Confidence, 7 June 2018 (Commission Decision 2012/504on 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.

ESGAB Opinion concerning professional statistical independence and staffing resources in the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), 11 May 2017

Opinion urging the German authorities to make statistical competence one of the professional qualifications required when appointing heads of statistical offices, 7 April 2015.

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 opinion on the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council ‘Towards robust quality management for European Statistics’, 31 May 2011