Report on the ‘Commitments on Confidence in Statistics’ by Member States as required by Regulation (EC) No 223/2009

Summary:

Article 11(4) of Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European Statistics establishes that Commitments on Confidence in Statistics shall be monitored regularly by the Commission on the basis of annual reports sent by Member States.

In the absence of the publication of a Commitment, Member States shall submit a progress report on the implementation of the Code of Practice and, where applicable, on the efforts undertaken towards the establishment of a Commitment.

This report is the first one to have been drawn up in accordance with the above provision.

Further information:

The Commission presented the concept of Commitment on confidence in statistics for the first time on 15 April 2011 in a Communication entitled 'Towards robust quality management for European statistics'. The Commitments were intended as a means to involve national governments in responsibility for the level of a country's compliance with the European Statistics Code of Practice, thus establishing a link between the Code and governments that was previously missing.