Policy Group on Statistical Cooperation

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1 EUROPEAN COMMISSION EUROSTAT Directorate E: Agriculture and Environment Statistics- Statistical Cooperation Unit E-4: Statistical Cooperation with European and Mediterranean countries Doc. PGSC/2006/13 Meeting of the Policy Group on Statistical Cooperation October 2006 Skopje Start: 9.30 am Overview of ongoing national statistical assistance programmes Point 7 of the Agenda

2 This document presents an overview of ongoing assistance by country based on the information that Eurostat received from participants before the 2006 PGSC meeting. The table therefore reflects the situation as of the beginning of October The table shows the allocation years, the amount to the projects (in thousands of Euro), brief project descriptions and status of the project. This information serves as an input for the exchange of experience with technical assistance projects among the countries. Year Overview of the national Phare/Cards/other programmes Albania Strengthening of National Accounts (ESA95) and adoption of acquis communitaire in the fields of: NA and prices, agriculture statistics, cooperation in the statistical system Twinning adopted in 02/2004 for 18 months Regional statistics Approved Bosnia and Herzegovina Business, statistics, national accounts, business register, strengthening the institutional infrastructure of BiH statistical institutes and improvement of co-ordination between the entities, agriculture statistics, external trade statistics, financial sector statistics Cards 2006 Supply of IT equipment and Software for Statistical Institutions Bulgaria Twinning: new acquis - SILC, information society; improvement of quality of NA, Statistical Surveys - SILC, IS and NA Service Contract Statistical Surveys Lot 1: SILC, Lot 2: IS and Lot 3: NA Service Contract Implementation started on 21/08/2006 Project Fiche approved and preparation will be done under Cards 2005 Tendering Supply of equipment Developing application software for Survey Processing System Reform of regional structure reorganisation and data collection Lots 1 and 2 Lot 3 to start in October 2006 Approval phase Programming 1

3 Year Croatia Twinning: Approximation of system to EU requirements: data collection and processing, methodology Business Register, National Accounts; Supply in IT equipment; Supplies for Agricultural Census Establishment of a system for producing regional accounts at NUTS II level Development of methodology for production of key public finance statistics 320 Upgrading of labour market statistics and IT supply Socio-economic indicators (HBS, SILC) and Structural Business Statistics at NUTS II level Organisation of the CBS, Business register and classification, national accounts, business statistics, agriculture statistics Major revision of classifications and upgrading of subject-matter statistics The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Support to population and agricultural census (1.32 M in total of which 0.11 M for population census + additional 0.55 M and 1.21 M for agriculture census) Capacity building, national accounts, Business statistics, social statistics, ICT capacity, quality monitoring, communication strategy Serbia and Montenegro (MONSTAT only) Assistance and training on economic statistics, statistical technical work, IT, organisation and management, Assistance for the organisation of the 2002 population census, Procurement of IT equipment and standard software and Feasibility studies and user needs assessment regarding statistical applications. Completed Twinning in implementation Twinning just started (15/02/06) Twinning ongoing Twinning Light and Framework Contract. scheduled to start in 10/2006 In Preparation Phase; 2 Twinning Fiches and ToR for Service Contract in preparation In programming phase Support to population census, adopted in 12/2002 for 24 months. Support to agricultural census failed to be contracted Twinning project has started in 06/2006. It will be finalised in 06/2008 2

4 Year 2002/ National accounts, prices, structural business statistics, dissemination, cooperation in statistical system (1.2 M for the SORS including SOSM and 0.5 M for MONSTAT) IT training; Organisation and management; EU regulations; Market economy, Training and strengthening of institutional capacity 2006 ca IT support (Serbia only) Tendering Romania Upgrading of IT structure, information society and new economy, road transport passenger survey, redesign of web site, relation with media, EU- SILC, satellite accounts on environment protection expenditure, social accounting matrix Twinning ; started in spring 2005 for 30 months CARDS Intrastat Social statistics (adult education survey, health survey, social protection statistics, electronic data collection for household surveys), agriculture and environment statistics (production statistics in agriculture, satellite accounts for national resources and air emissions in environment statistics), economic statistics (informal sector assessment, flash estimates for QNA, price statistics for services, redesign of SBS), regional statistics, access to statistical information, equipment Improvement of tourism statistics quality, improvement and compliance of the forest statistics, creating a coherent and integrated system for the use of administrative data sources in Romanian statistics; implementing TQM in statistics Turkey Upgrading the Statistical System of Turkey Programme Phase I (technical assistance, training activities, data collection and procurement of equipment are the components of the programme.) Upgrading the Statistical System of Turkey Programme Phase II Under contracting Under discussion Procurement of equipment is finalized. TA, Data Collection and Training components will be completed by the end of Tendering 3

5 03/ / / /2006 Kosovo/UNSCR Economic Statistics, Dissemination and External Coordination. National accounts, government statistics, external trade statistics, business register, employment/unemployment indicators, Household Survey Program. EU funded project Support to the Statistical Office of Kosovo managed by the EAR implemented by ICON Institute public Sector GmbH. ASPAUK II - Agriculture pilot census combined with agriculture household survey 2005, Farm account data network staff trainings. EAR Implemented by NRI-International Support for the population census. (EU funded project Support for population Census managed by the EAR, implemented by ISTAT, INSTAT CIRPIS) 2005 ca Main focus on National Accounts and macroeconomic statistics, other items still to decide on In planning 4