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The NSI trains experts from the Statistical Office of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in the field of Consumer Price statistics

Monday, 22 June 2015 - 10:40
On 22 - 25 June 2015 the National Statistical Institute will host a four-day study visit on which experts from ‘Macroeconomic Statistics’ Directorate will acquaint their Macedonian colleagues with Bulgarian experience in the field of Consumer price statistics.  
 
During the study visit the main issues will be devoted to:
 
• Review and implementation of the legislation in the field of consumer price statistics

Meeting of the National Statistical Council

Friday, 12 June 2015 - 16:40
At its first meeting for 2015, held on June 12, 2015, the National Statistical Council (NSC) considered four main objectives of the new law on European statistics, which modifies the Regulation (EC) № 223/2009, namely:

• Strengthening the professional independence;

• Clarification of the coordinating role of the NSI;

Annual Conference of European Statisticians

Friday, 12 June 2015 - 10:00
The 63rd plenary session of the Conference of European Statisticians (CES) will be held in the period 15 - 17 June, 2015 in Geneva, Switzerland.

The conference provides a platform for coordination of international statistical activities in the region of United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), to solve emerging problems and develop methodological guidelines and recommendations to improve national statistics and their international comparability.

Two seminars will be held within CES:

The ESS Report 2014

Monday, 1 June 2015 - 14:21
The aim of ‘The ESS Report’ is to allow its readers an insider's view into the world of European statistics, produced and disseminated by the European Statistical System (ESS).

The current issue explains the organisation of the ESS, presents an overview of its key initiatives in 2014 and focuses, in two separate articles, on the challenges linked to the measurement of globalisation and the modernised methodology for the calculation of GDP, the European System of National and Regional Accounts (ESA 2010), successfully introduced across the ESS last year.

A delegation from the Committee on Statistics of the Republic of Kazakhstan on a visit to the National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria

Monday, 1 June 2015 - 10:25
A delegation from the Committee on Statistics of the Republic of Kazakhstan, will be on a five-day visit in the National Statistical Institute from 1 June to 5 June 2015.

The visit will be held within the framework of the Twinning Project funded by World Bank and implemented by a consortium between the Federal Statistical Office of Germany and the Committee on Statistics of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

High Level Seminar on Quality in Statistics

Thursday, 28 May 2015 - 15:12
Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Union, is organising a High Level Seminar for the Eastern European, Caucasus and Central Asian Countries (EECCA), entitled ‘Quality in Statistics: The National Statistical System’ which will take place on 1 - 3 June 2015 in Riga, Latvia - the country holding the Presidency of the Council of the EU in this period.

The seminar is aimed for the top management of the National Statistical Institutes of the EECCA countries and is dedicated to two main topics:

NSI experts are consulting statisticians from Kosovo in the field of Statistics on Information Society

Tuesday, 26 May 2015 - 17:12
In relation to a request for technical assistance by the Kosovo Agency of Statistics NSI experts from ‘R&D, Innovation and Information Society’ Department NSI will provide training in the field of Statistics on Information Society. The expert mission is going to take place within the period 26 - 28 May 2015 in Pristine.

The colleagues from Kosovo will be aware of Bulgarian experience in the implementation of European legislation in the field of statistics on the information society.

Meeting of the European Statistical System Committee

Monday, 18 May 2015 - 09:36
On 20 and 21 May 2015 in Eurostat, Luxembourg, the 25th meeting of the European Statistical System Committee (ESSC) will be held and the President of the National Statistical Institute, Mr. Sergey Tsvetarsky, will take part. This is the second meeting for the year out of four regular annual ESSC meetings.