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The President of the National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria (NSI) Assoc. Prof. Atanas Atanasov and the Presdient of the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) - Athanasios Thanopoulos, signed a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in the field of official statistics, which marked the beginning of a new stage in the collaboration between the two countries in statistical studies of foreign trade in goods, tourism statistics, population and housing census, etc.

With an official letter from the Chair of the Committee on Statistics and Statistical Policy of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Mr. Geir Axelsen, the President of NSI Assoc. Prof. Atanas Atanasov, PhD, was informed of the successful conclusion of Bulgaria’s accession review to the Committee.

At an invitation of the Executive Director of the National Statistics Office of Georgia (GEOSTAT), Mr. Gogita Todradze, the President of the National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria, Assoc. Prof. Atanas Atanasov, PhD, and Deputy President Svilen Kolev, PhD, took part in the second edition of Regional Conference on Gender Statistics, which was held on 25-26 July 2024 in Tbilisi.  

On 4-5 July 2024, the Global Conference on Measuring New Forms of Employment, jointly organized by Eurostat and the International Labour Organization (ILO), was held in Brussels. The Deputy President of the National Statistical Institute (NSI), Diana Yancheva, took part in the event on behalf of Bulgaria.

The President of the NSI, Assoc. Prof. Atanas Atanasov, PhD participated in the 72nd plenary session of the Conference of European Statisticians (CES), which was held in the period of June 20 – 21, 2024 in Geneva, Switzerland. The event is organized by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).

The President of the National Statistical Institute (NSI), Assoc. Prof. Atanas Atanasov, PhD and Deputy President Svilen Kolev, PhD, accompanied by experts from the International Relations and Projects Department, took part in the 21st meeting of the Committee on Statistics and Statistical Policy of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The meeting was held on 17-18 June 2024 at the OECD headquarters in Paris.

The President of the National Statistical Institute (NSI), Assoc. Prof. Atanas Atanasov, PhD and the Director of Multi-Domain Statistics, Methodology and Registers Directorate, Antoaneta Ilkova, took part in the 11th European Conference on Quality in Official Statistics (Q2024) in Estoril, Portugal. The event was hosted by Statistics Portugal in close collaboration with Eurostat under the theme “Official Statistics as a Pillar of Democracy”.

Eurostat is happy to announce the winners of the European Statistics Competition 2024, held in the 2023-2024 school year. 

Over 22 000 students from 20 countries signed up for the seventh edition of this statistical literacy contest, which was the highest number since the competition’s inception.

The President of the NSI Assoc. Prof. Atanas Atanasov, PhD and Mrs. Maria Gochova – Acting Head of the International Relations and Projects Department, participated in the 56th meeting of the European Statistical System Committee (ESSC), which was held in Luxembourg.

In the period 15-17 May 2024, a seminar on the topic of “Development, production and distribution of data in the field of Government Finance Statistics” was held in the National Statistical Institute’s training center in the village of Slivek. The seminar was chaired by Ms. Nina Stoimenova, Director of Macroeconomic Statistics Directorate of the NSI.