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Introduction to the legal framework for European Statistics

European Commission

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Unit A5, Legal Affairs, Document Management

Per_Bredholt.Christensen@ec.europa.eu

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Basic legal acts

Legal basis in the Treaties

  • Article 338 TFEU

Governance framework

Operational framework

  • European statistical programme, Regulation (EU) No 99/2013
  • Basic legal acts in the domain specific areas

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Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European Statistics�

  • Chapter I: General Provisions
  • Chapter II: Statistical Governance
  • Chapter III: Production of European Statistics
  • Chapter IV: Dissemination of European Statistics
  • Chapter V: Statistical Confidentiality
  • Chapter VI: Final Provisions

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Chapter I, General Provisions

  • Statistical principles (Art 2, cf Art 338 TFEU)
  • Professional independence
  • Impartiality
  • Objectivity
  • Reliability
  • Statistical confidentiality
  • Cost-effectiveness

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Chapter II, Statistical Governance

  • Establishing the European Statistical System (ESS) (Art 4) as a system of collaboration and partnership
  • Defining the main actors (Art 5-7)
  • The ESS Committee (Art 7) – both advisory and comitology body
  • Cooperation with, ESAC and ESGAB and the ESCB and internationally (Art 8-10)
  • The Code of Practice (Art 11)
  • Statistical quality criteria (Art 12)

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Statistical Quality Criteria (Art 12)

  • 7 quality criteria:
    • Relevance – Accessibility
    • Accuracy – Comparability
    • Timeliness – Coherence
    • Punctuality
  • To be specified in sectoral legislation

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Chapter III, Production of European Statistics

  • The European Statistical programme (ESP) (Art 13), cf the latest ESP as extended to 2020

Regulation (EU) No 99/2013

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Chapter IV, Dissemination of European Statistics

  • Art 18, dissemination in accordance with the statistical principles as laid down in Art 2

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  • Chapter V: Statistical confidentiality

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  • Chapter VI: Final provisions
  • Committee procedure (Comitology), Art 27, cf. Regulation (EU) No 182/2011, applying to all comitology procedures of all chapters of the acquis

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Useful link

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Thank you for your attention !

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