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The new President of the National Statistical Institute (NSI) Reneta Indjova met with the former President of the institution Assoc. Prof. Mariana Kotzeva to accept the post and was officially introduced to the top management of NSI. At the meeting the President presented her vision for future work and outlined priority commitments.

Winner of the “Computerworld Bulgaria” newspaper’s competition entitled “IT project of 2011” in the category “Public Organisations” became the Census Information System implemented by the National Statistical Institute. The award was presented at official ceremony in the Sheraton Sofia Hotel by Mr. Nikola Nyagolov, chairman of the jury and senior manager of “Consultancy, Management and Information Technology” at KPMG, Bulgaria.

The National Statistical Institute has published the Release Calendar for the results of statistical surveys in 2012, which can be found under “Products and Services” Section in the NSI website at:

https://www.nsi.bg/pageen.php?P=179&SP=317.

The National Statistical Institute publishes data on three new indicators, based on the Labour Force Survey, which aim is to describe more detailed different categories of persons according to their labour market attachment.

The indicators have been developed by Eurostat in cooperation with EU Member States. The indicators cover:

• underemployed part-time workers;

• potential additional labour force, consisting of:

- persons seeking work but not immediately available;

The NSI President Assoc. Prof. Mariana Kotzeva, participated in the 12^th meeting of the European Statistical System Committee (ESSC), which was held at Eurostat, Luxembourg, February 9, 2012.

Delegation of the Federal State Statistics Service of Russia (ROSSTAT) led by its head Alexander Surinov paid a two-day visit to the National Statistical Institute. The main purpose of the visit was to explore NSI’s experience in the preparation and implementation of eCensus, as 41% of Bulgarian citizens successfully took advantage of it in February 2011.

Due to the need to promote the quality management activities in the National Statistical System, NSI offers to users a new .

Production and dissemination of high-quality and timely statistics is a priority for the European Statistical System (ESS). In the quality management the European Statistics Code of Practice principles are applied, which sets the standard for developing, producing and disseminating European statistics, and guarantees the proper functioning of the ESS.

On 16 January 2012 in Brasov, Romania, the Presidents of the National Statistical Offices of Bulgaria and Romania, Assoc. Prof. Mariana Kotzeva, PhD, and Prof. Vergil Voineagu, PhD, signed the “Memorandum of Understanding between the National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria and the National Institute of Statistics of Romania on cooperation in the field of statistics”.

On 16-17 January 2012, a delegation from NSI, led by the President Assoc. Prof. Mariana Kotzeva, will pay an official visit to Romania on signing the “Memorandum of Understanding between the National Statistical Institute/Bulgaria and the National Institute of Statistics/Romania on cooperation in the field of statistics”. The signing ceremony will take place in Brasov.