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The official visit of a delegation from the National Statistical Institute, led by the President Dr. Mariana Kotseva, in the Statistical Office of Jordan was completed.

An expert training will be held from 2 to 4 August 2011 in Kiev (Ukraine), requested by the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine. It is organized by the European Commission under the Technical Assistance Information Exchange Instrument (TAIEX) for the implementation of the acquis.

On behalf of NSI trainers will be Elka Atanasova, Director, Macroeconomic Statistics Directorate, and Elena Bakalova, State Expert, Non-financial National Accounts Department to the same Directorate.

From 2 to 5 August 2011 a delegation from the NSI, led by Assoc. Prof. Mariana Kotzeva will pay an official visit to the Department of Statistics of Jordan.

The reason for the visit is the conclusion of an Agreement for cooperation between the National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria and the Department of Statistics of Jordan in the field of statistics.

The National Statistical Institute offers to the attention of its users the new developed websection "Sustainable Development".

The indicators are counted 64, grouped into 10 themes, affecting economic, social, environmental and institutional issues related to sustainable development. Their selection is based on 14 criteria related to data relevance, quality, validity, and others.

Diana Yancheva, Director, Business Statistics Directorate, and Gergana Maeva, State Expert, Short-term Statistics Department, will train their colleagues from the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine on 18-21 July 2011 in Kiev.

During the 4-day expert mission, EU Requirements and NSI practice related to the annual Structural Business Statistics (SBS) survey and the monthly and quarterly Short-term Statistics (STS) surveys will be presented.

The main topics of the training will be:

On 11^th of July in Sofia starts joint Eurostat, BNB and NSI training course on Government Finance Statistics.

The course is divided into two parts. The first part is from 11 to 15 July, and the second part from 21 to 25 of November. The main topics are

• European legislation related to general government statistics;

• System of national accounts – overview, institutional units according to ESA; transactions and stocks of government;

Elena Petrova, expert in the NSI Business Statistics Directorate, together with her Dutch colleague Nino Platteel, is training statisticians from the National Statistical Offices of the Balkan countries. It is a three-day training course and is carried out in Cologne, Germany, on 4-6 July 2011. The course organizer is ICON-INSTITUT Public Sector GmbH – Germany, which manages statistical cooperation programmes through the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA) of the European Commission.

On 4-6 July 2011, NSI experts will train their colleagues from the State Statistical Office of the Republic of Macedonia on Energy Statistics.

The hosting NSI unit providing the expertise is the Environment and Energy Statistics Department. A representative of the Executive Environment Agency, Ms Evelina Nikolova – national inventory focal point, will also take part in the training.

The discussions will be focused on the following topics:

A team of experts from the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia was on a study visit to the NSI on 28-30 June 2011 with the aim to get acquainted with the Bulgarian experience in the field of energy statistics. The main topics on which the experts from the Environment and Energy Statistics Department shared their extensive professional experience and knowledge were:

• Legislation related to energy statistics

• Bulgarian energy data collection systems

• Energy balances – main indicators