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Last meeting of the Council Working Party on Statistics under the Bulgarian Presidency

Friday, 15 June 2018 - 13:07
The main topic of the last meeting of the Working Party on Statistics held under the Bulgarian Presidency on 14 June 2018 was the Proposal for a Framework Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on European business statistics and repealing 10 legal acts in the field of business statistics (FRIBS). The discussions focused on the legal architecture of the proposal, as well as the content of the delegated and the implementing acts.

Fifth meeting of the Council Working Party on Statistics

Wednesday, 30 May 2018 - 12:20
The main topic of the meeting of the Working Party on Statistics, which was held on 29 May 2018, was the European Commission’s Proposal for a Framework Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on European business statistics amending Regulation (EC) No 184/2005 and repealing 10 legal acts in the field of business statistics (FRIBS). The discussions focused on the compromise text on Articles 1 to 27 prepared by the Bulgarian Presidency.

Meeting of Directors Generals of National Statistical Institutes was held in Sofia

Wednesday, 23 May 2018 - 17:30
The National Statistical Institute hosted a Meeting of the Directors Generals of National Statistical Institutes. The event was held on 22 and 23 May under the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union and was jointly organized by the Eurostat - statistical office of the European Commission, and the National Statistical Institute of the Republic of Bulgaria.

The National Statistical Institute and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) signed a Memorandum of Cooperation and Cooperation

Monday, 21 May 2018 - 17:20
The President of the National Statistical Institute Sergei Tsvetarsky and the UNICEF representative for Bulgaria Maria Jesus Conde signed a Memorandum of Understanding and Cooperation between the two institutions. The main objective of the document is to create a sustainable comprehensive system for monitoring the situation of children in the Republic of Bulgaria.

International conference “Big Data for European statistics” 2018 (BDES 2018) was held in Sofia

Friday, 18 May 2018 - 09:30
The National Statistical Institute hosted and co-organised, together with Statistics Belgium, an international conference at which the results of the ESSnet Big Data project were presented. NSI President Sergey Tsvetarsky, Director-General of Eurostat Mariana Kotzeva, President of Statistics Poland Dominik Rozkrut, and project coordinator Peter Struijs participated in the event, which took place on 14-15 May 2018 in Sofia.

Main results of the April Council Working Party on Statistics

Friday, 20 April 2018 - 12:05
The focus of the meeting of the Council Working Party on Statistics (CWPS) held on 19 April 2018 was mainly on the proposal of the European Commission for a Framework Regulation Integrating Business Statistics.

The basis for the discussions on this file was the Bulgarian Presidency compromise text on Articles 1 to 27 of the proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on European business statistics amending Regulation (EC) No 184/2005 and repealing 10 legal acts in the field of business statistics (FRIBS).

Another regulation in the field of statistics successfully goes through trilogue

Thursday, 12 April 2018 - 16:30
On 11 April 2018 in the building of the European Parliament in Brussels the first tripartite negotiations (trilogue) were held between the Parliament, the Council and the Commission on the proposal for a Regulation on integrated farm statistics.

The adoption of this regulation was expected as early as 2017 by the Member States and Eurostat in light of the upcoming agricultural census. The aim of the regulation is to ensure a common methodology and scope of the statistical surveys in the field of agriculture in the EU.