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On 20 October, World Statistics Day¹ is celebrated for the first time. This event highlights the importance of official statistics in our society. At EU level, efforts have been made over more than 50 years by the National Statistical Offices of the Member States, together with Eurostat, to produce reliable and comparable data. Nowadays European statistics are used in many different ways by a growing number of people.

The NSI President – Assoc. Prof. Mariana Kotzeva will take part in the annual meeting of Eurostat with the EU candidate countries, which will be held on 6 – 7 October 2010 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

During the sessions the following issues will be discussed:

• preparation of census 2011.

• Eurostat strategy on training statisticians from the Western Balkan countries.

• international cooperation, mainly participation in international meetings.

The NSI gathered in Sofia the Directors General of the National Statistical Institutes of the EU Member States

The 96^th Conference of the Directors General of the National Statistical Institutes of the EU Member States (DGINS) has ended. During the three-day forum, issues about the priorities for the next five-year Community Statistical Programme were discussed and the trends for the European Statistical System up to 2020 were set up.

The President of NSI – Assoc. Prof. Mariana Kotzeva will take part in the Eurostat Sponsorship on Communication Meeting, to be held on 13th September 2010 in Madrid.

The Sponsorship Group consists of the heads of the statistical offices of Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Spain, France, Great Britain, Germany, Lithuania, Sweden, Romania and Switzerland.

The National Statistical Institute has developed a specialized website for the Census of the Population and Housing in Bulgaria in 2011.

At /census2011/ information can be found about the legislation and the census methodology, the history of censuses in Bulgaria from 1880 till today, as well as links to the EUROSTAT website on data from censuses in other EU Member States.

On 27^th June 2010 students who are living and studying abroad visited the National Statistical Institute. The visit was organized at the initiative of the Agency for Bulgarians Abroad.

Students who study in different universities in the US, Britain, Austria, Belgium and elsewhere, got acquainted with the Digital Library and expressed their satisfaction with the fact that they will be able to use Bulgarian statistical publications from different parts of the world.

A group of experts from the Ministry of Finance of Tadzhikistan, headed by the Deputy Minister of Finance, Mr. Djamshed Nurmahmadovic, visited NSI during its study visit in Bulgaria. The visit was held within the framework of an EC project aiming to provide technical assistance to the recently created Department for Monitoring the State Enterprises, subordinated to the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Tadzhikistan.