NSI President Reneta Indjova, Ph.D. will participate in the 17th meeting of the European Statistical System Committee

The NSI President Reneta Indjova, Ph.D. will participate in the 17^th meeting of the European Statistical System Committee (ESSC), which will be held in the premises of Eurostat in Luxembourg on 15-16 May 2013. This is the second out of four ESSC meetings for the calendar year, chaired by Eurostat and attended by the Heads of National Statistical Offices of the Member States and representatives of EFTA countries, ECB and OECD.

The ESS Committee provides professional guidance to the ESS for developing, producing and disseminating European statistics in line with the statistical principles. The ESSC consults Eurostat on issues related to the coordination and priorities of the European statistical programme, further development of the European Statistics Code of Practice, reduction of response burden, statistical confidentiality, and issues of methodology, arising from the establishment and implementation of the statistical programmes.

According to the agenda, ESSC will decide on a comitology item related to Draft Commission Regulation concerning the production and the development of statistics in education and lifelong learning with the aim of implementing ISCED 2011. The items for opinion cover the draft Annual Work Programme for European statistics 2014 as well as the planned negative priorities for 2014; ESS.VIP Programme for building common ESS infrastructure and administrative mechanisms for sharing information, services and costs; ESSnet Programme for 2014 and the projects embedded in it; revision of the GNI Regulation; methodology of the Peer Reviews. Further discussions will be held with focus on the report of the Partnership Group and the report of the Business Statistics Directors Group. In addition, the report from the Presidency (Ireland) will be presented.

During the meeting the report of the 44^th session of the United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC), held at the United Nations Headquarters, New York, in the period 26 February – 1 March 2013, will be presented to the ESSC. As of this year Bulgaria is a member of UNSC.