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* '''1953''' The Statistics Division for the [[European Coal and Steel Community]] established.
* '''1953''': The Statistics Division for the [[European Coal and Steel Community]] established.
* '''1958''' The European Community founded and the forerunner of Eurostat established.
* '''1958''': The European Community founded and the forerunner of Eurostat established.
* '''1959''' The present name of Eurostat as the Statistical Office of the European Communities adopted. First publication issued - on agricultural statistics.
* '''1959''': The present name of Eurostat as the Statistical Office of the European Communities adopted. First publication issued – on agricultural statistics.
* '''1960''' First Community [[Labour Force Survey]].
* '''1960''': First Community [[Labour Force Survey]].
* '''1970''' The European System of Integrated Economic Accounts ([[European System of Accounts]], ESA) published and the general [[Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community]] (NACE) established.
* '''1970''': The European System of Integrated Economic Accounts ([[European System of Accounts]], ESA) published and the general [[Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community]] (NACE) established.
* '''1974''' First domain in the statistical database Cronos databank installed.
* '''1974''': First domain in the statistical database Cronos databank installed.
* '''1988''' [[European Commission]] adopts a document defining the first policy for statistical information.
* '''1988''': [[European Commission]] adopts a document defining the first policy for statistical information.
* '''1989''' The Statistical Programme Committee established and the first programme (1989–1992) adopted by the council as an instrument for implementing statistical information policy.
* '''1989''': The Statistical Programme Committee established and the first programme (1989–1992) adopted by the council as an instrument for implementing statistical information policy.
* '''1990''' The Council adopts a directive on transmission of confidential data to Eurostat, previously an obstacle to Community statistical work.
* '''1990''': The Council adopts a directive on transmission of confidential data to Eurostat, previously an obstacle to Community statistical work.
* '''1991''' Eurostat's role extended as a result of the agreement on establishment of the [[European Economic Area]] and adoption of the [[Maastricht Treaty]].
* '''1991''': Eurostat's role extended as a result of the agreement on establishment of the [[European Economic Area]] and adoption of the [[Maastricht Treaty]].
* '''1993''' The single market extends Eurostat's activities e.g. Intrastat established for statistics on intra-EU trade. Eurostat starts issuing regular news releases.
* '''1993''': The single market extends Eurostat's activities e.g. Intrastat established for statistics on intra-EU trade. Eurostat starts issuing regular news releases.
* '''1994''' First European household panel held, analysing income, employment, poverty, [[social exclusion]], households, health, etc.
* '''1994''': First European household panel held, analysing income, employment, poverty, [[social exclusion]], households, health, etc.
* '''1997''' Statistics added for the first time to the Treaty of Amsterdam and the Statistical Law approved by the council. Harmonised Indices of Consumer Prices [[HICP]] published for the first time - designed for [[Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union]] (EMU) convergence criteria.
* '''1997''': Statistics added for the first time to the Treaty of Amsterdam and the Statistical Law approved by the council. Harmonised Indices of Consumer Prices [[HICP]] published for the first time – designed for [[Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union]] (EMU) convergence criteria.
* '''1998''' The eleven countries in at the start of EMU (EUR-11) announced, and Eurostat issues the first indicators specific to the EMU area.
* '''1998''': The eleven countries in at the start of EMU (EUR-11) announced, and Eurostat issues the first indicators specific to the EMU area.
* '''1999''' Start of EMU, 1 January 2001.
* '''1999''': Start of EMU, 1 January 2001.
* '''2001''' In April, Eurostat, in collaboration with five other international organisations (APEC, IAE, OLADE, OPEC, UNSD) launched the Joint Oil Data Exercise, which in 2005 became the [[Joint Organisations Data Initiative]] (JODI).
* '''2001''': In April, Eurostat, in collaboration with five other international organisations (APEC, IAE, OLADE, OPEC, UNSD) launched the Joint Oil Data Exercise, which in 2005 became the [[Joint Organisations Data Initiative]] (JODI).
* '''2002''' Start of the Euro on 1 January, Eurostat supplies key statistics for monetary policy.
* '''2002''': Start of the Euro on 1 January, Eurostat supplies key statistics for monetary policy.
* '''2003''' Irregularities were suspected in Eurostat, see [[Eurostat scandal]].
* '''2003''': Irregularities were suspected in Eurostat, see [[Eurostat scandal]].
* '''2004''' Start of free-of-charge dissemination of all statistical data except microdata for research purposes.
* '''2004''': Start of free-of-charge dissemination of all statistical data except microdata for research purposes.
* '''2005''' Commission Recommendation on the independence, integrity and Accountability of the National and Community Statistical Authorities (European Statistics Code of Practice)
* '''2005''': Commission Recommendation on the independence, integrity and Accountability of the National and Community Statistical Authorities (European Statistics Code of Practice)
* '''2005''' Start of a three-year peer review exercise across the European Statistical System to monitor compliance with the Code of Practice.
* '''2005''': Start of a three-year peer review exercise across the European Statistical System to monitor compliance with the Code of Practice.
* '''2007''' The currently valid five-year Statistical Programme 2008-2012 was adopted.
* '''2007''': The currently valid five-year Statistical Programme 2008-2012 was adopted.
* '''2009''' New European Regulation governing statistical cooperation in the European Union was adopted.
* '''2009''': New European Regulation governing statistical cooperation in the European Union was adopted.
* '''2010''' Following strong criticism, from within the EU and otherwise, of how it had handled inaccurate{{vague|reason= my first try at correction went to [[verifiability]], and was even worse than what i had found. But at least rewording is needed, no matter whether it was fraudulent or sloppy. It may require an extensive NPOV passaage on the details of what sounds like a scandal i missed being aware of!|date=July 2017}} data regarding Greece, Eurostat published a report<ref>{{cite journal |url=
* '''2010''': Following strong criticism, from within the EU and otherwise, of how it had handled inaccurate{{vague|reason= my first try at correction went to [[verifiability]], and was even worse than what i had found. But at least rewording is needed, no matter whether it was fraudulent or sloppy. It may require an extensive NPOV passaage on the details of what sounds like a scandal i missed being aware of!|date=July 2017}} data regarding Greece, Eurostat published a report<ref>{{cite journal |url=
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/resource.html?uri=cellar:5ed7b110-2c7d-4ddf-bb89-2e32b2208988.0003.01/DOC_9&format=PDF|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131008043930/http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_PUBLIC/COM_2010_REPORT_GREEK/EN/COM_2010_REPORT_GREEK-EN.PDF|archive-date=October 8, 2013 |date=8 January 2010 |access-date=4 October 2024 |journal=Eurostat |publisher=[[European Commission]] |title=Report on Greek Government Deficit and Debt Statistics |pages=30}}, {{CELEX|52010DC0001}}</ref> to try to rectify its procedures. The European Commission proposes powers for Eurostat to audit the books of national governments in response to the [[Greek government-debt crisis]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Greece Pressed to Take Action on Economic Woes |first1=Stephen |last1=Castle |first2=Matthew |last2=Saltmarsh |date=15 February 2010 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/business/global/16euro.html |quote=... the European Commission proposed powers for Eurostat to audit the books of national governments |access-date=26 June 2019 }}</ref>
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/resource.html?uri=cellar:5ed7b110-2c7d-4ddf-bb89-2e32b2208988.0003.01/DOC_9&format=PDF|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131008043930/http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_PUBLIC/COM_2010_REPORT_GREEK/EN/COM_2010_REPORT_GREEK-EN.PDF|archive-date=October 8, 2013 |date=8 January 2010 |access-date=4 October 2024 |journal=Eurostat |publisher=[[European Commission]] |title=Report on Greek Government Deficit and Debt Statistics |pages=30}}, {{CELEX|52010DC0001}}</ref> to try to rectify its procedures. The European Commission proposes powers for Eurostat to audit the books of national governments in response to the [[Greek government-debt crisis]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Greece Pressed to Take Action on Economic Woes |first1=Stephen |last1=Castle |first2=Matthew |last2=Saltmarsh |date=15 February 2010 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/business/global/16euro.html |quote=... the European Commission proposed powers for Eurostat to audit the books of national governments |access-date=26 June 2019 }}</ref>
* '''2011''' Revision of European Statistics Code of Practice by the European Statistical System Committee.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/quality/code_of_practice |title=European Statistics Code of Practice |work=eurostat |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520092533/http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/quality/code_of_practice |archive-date=20 May 2011 |access-date=26 June 2019 |date=13 July 2010 |publisher=[[European Commission]] |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* '''2011''': Revision of European Statistics Code of Practice by the European Statistical System Committee.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/quality/code_of_practice |title=European Statistics Code of Practice |work=eurostat |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520092533/http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/quality/code_of_practice |archive-date=20 May 2011 |access-date=26 June 2019 |date=13 July 2010 |publisher=[[European Commission]] |url-status=dead }}</ref>


==Directors General==
==Directors General==

Latest revision as of 02:21, 8 June 2025

Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Distinguish". Template:More citations needed Template:Infobox government agency Eurostat ("European Statistical Office"; also DG ESTAT) is a department of the European Commission (Directorate-General), located in the Kirchberg quarter of Luxembourg City, Luxembourg. Eurostat's main responsibilities are to provide statistical information to the institutions of the European Union (EU) and to promote the harmonisation of statistical methods across its member states and candidates for accession as well as EFTA countries. The organisations in the different countries that cooperate with Eurostat are summarised under the concept of the European Statistical System.

Organisation

Eurostat operates pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 223/2009.[1] Since the swearing in of the von der Leyen Commission in December 2019, Eurostat is allocated to the portfolio of the European Commissioner for the Economy, Paolo Gentiloni.[2]

The Director-General of Eurostat is Mariana Kotzeva, former Deputy Director-General of Eurostat and President of the National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria.[3][4]

History

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  • 1953: The Statistics Division for the European Coal and Steel Community established.
  • 1958: The European Community founded and the forerunner of Eurostat established.
  • 1959: The present name of Eurostat as the Statistical Office of the European Communities adopted. First publication issued – on agricultural statistics.
  • 1960: First Community Labour Force Survey.
  • 1970: The European System of Integrated Economic Accounts (European System of Accounts, ESA) published and the general Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community (NACE) established.
  • 1974: First domain in the statistical database Cronos databank installed.
  • 1988: European Commission adopts a document defining the first policy for statistical information.
  • 1989: The Statistical Programme Committee established and the first programme (1989–1992) adopted by the council as an instrument for implementing statistical information policy.
  • 1990: The Council adopts a directive on transmission of confidential data to Eurostat, previously an obstacle to Community statistical work.
  • 1991: Eurostat's role extended as a result of the agreement on establishment of the European Economic Area and adoption of the Maastricht Treaty.
  • 1993: The single market extends Eurostat's activities e.g. Intrastat established for statistics on intra-EU trade. Eurostat starts issuing regular news releases.
  • 1994: First European household panel held, analysing income, employment, poverty, social exclusion, households, health, etc.
  • 1997: Statistics added for the first time to the Treaty of Amsterdam and the Statistical Law approved by the council. Harmonised Indices of Consumer Prices HICP published for the first time – designed for Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union (EMU) convergence criteria.
  • 1998: The eleven countries in at the start of EMU (EUR-11) announced, and Eurostat issues the first indicators specific to the EMU area.
  • 1999: Start of EMU, 1 January 2001.
  • 2001: In April, Eurostat, in collaboration with five other international organisations (APEC, IAE, OLADE, OPEC, UNSD) launched the Joint Oil Data Exercise, which in 2005 became the Joint Organisations Data Initiative (JODI).
  • 2002: Start of the Euro on 1 January, Eurostat supplies key statistics for monetary policy.
  • 2003: Irregularities were suspected in Eurostat, see Eurostat scandal.
  • 2004: Start of free-of-charge dissemination of all statistical data except microdata for research purposes.
  • 2005: Commission Recommendation on the independence, integrity and Accountability of the National and Community Statistical Authorities (European Statistics Code of Practice)
  • 2005: Start of a three-year peer review exercise across the European Statistical System to monitor compliance with the Code of Practice.
  • 2007: The currently valid five-year Statistical Programme 2008-2012 was adopted.
  • 2009: New European Regulation governing statistical cooperation in the European Union was adopted.
  • 2010: Following strong criticism, from within the EU and otherwise, of how it had handled inaccurateTemplate:Vague data regarding Greece, Eurostat published a report[5] to try to rectify its procedures. The European Commission proposes powers for Eurostat to audit the books of national governments in response to the Greek government-debt crisis.[6]
  • 2011: Revision of European Statistics Code of Practice by the European Statistical System Committee.[7]

Directors General

Name Nationality Term
Rolf Wagenführ Template:Country data West Germany 1952–1966
Raymond Dumas Template:Country data France 1966–1973
Jacques Mayer Template:Country data France 1973–1977
Aage Dornonville de la Cour Template:Country data Denmark 1977–1982
Pieter de Geus Template:Country data Netherlands 1982–1984
Silvio Ronchetti Template:Country data Italy 1984–1987
Yves Franchet Template:Country data France 1987–2003
Michel Vanden Abeele Template:Country data Belgium 2003–2004
Günther Hanreich Template:Country data Austria 2004–2006
Hervé Carré Template:Country data France 2006–2008
Walter Radermacher Template:Country data Germany 2008–2016
Mariana Kotzeva (acting 2017–2018) Template:Country data Bulgaria 2017–current

Regulations

The Regulation (EC) No 223/2009[1] of 11 March 2009 on European statistics establishes the legal framework for the European statistics.[8]

The amending Regulation (EU) 2015/759[9] of 29 April 2015 clarifies that heads of NSIs coordinate national level activities for European statistics and decide on processes, methods, standards and procedures of their respective statistics.[8]

Previous Eurostat regulations were a Decision on Eurostat (2012/504/EU), and the earlier Decision on Eurostat (97/281/EC).

Main areas of statistical activities

File:European regions by GDP in percentage of the EU average.png

European regions by GDP, expressed as a percentage of the EU average

Statistical work

The Eurostat statistical work is structured into Themes and Sub-themes.[10]

General and regional statistics
Economy and finance
  • National accounts (including GDP)
  • ESA Input-Output tables
  • European sector accounts
  • Pensions in National Accounts
  • Government finance and EDP
  • Exchange and interest rates
  • Harmonised Indices of Consumer Prices (HICP)
  • Housing price statistics
  • Purchasing Power Parities (PPPs)
  • Balance of payments
  • Economic globalisation
Population and social conditions
  • Population: demography, population projections, census, asylum & migration
  • Health
  • Education and training
  • Labour market (including Labour Force Survey (LFS))
  • Income, social inclusion and living conditions
  • Social protection
  • Household Budget Surveys
  • Youth
  • Culture
  • Sport
  • Crime and criminal justice
  • Quality of life indicators
  • Equality (age, gender and disability)
  • Skills related statistics
Industry, trade and services
Agriculture and fisheries
International trade
  • International trade in goods (Comext)
  • International trade in services
Transport
Environment and energy
  • Environment
  • Energy
  • Climate change
Science, technology, digital society
  • Science, technology and innovation
  • Digital economy and society

General statistical activities

General statistical activities related to the European Statistical system are:

  • Coordination and governance of the European Statistical System
  • Statistical methodological coordination and research
  • Statistical quality and reporting

Geographical scope

EU data

Currently, and since Brexit on February the first 2020, Eurostat data are aggregated at the EU-27 level, known as EU-27.[11][12] Before Brexit Eurostat data was aggregated at the EU-28 level, known as EU-28.

Since Brexit occurred on February the first 2020, data has to be computed for the EU-27 because by definition Brexit makes the UK a third country to the EU.

Nonetheless, to avoid confusion with the previous EU-27 group of 27 member states — which was used in the series of statistical data before the accession of member state number 28 — another name for the current EU 27 without the UK is defined as EU27_2019 in February 2019 and EU27_2020 since March 2020 according to Eurostat.[12][13]

The name changed from EU27_2019 to EU27_2020 due to a British constitutional delay which resulted in Brexit being delivered in 2020 rather than the initially planned 2019.

The concept of the EU 28 has been used since 1 January 2014, also according to the Eurostat methodological manual on city statistics, 2017 edition.

Local data are also computed at the NUTS level.

Statistical cooperation in and around Europe

Eurostat is also engaged in cooperation with third countries through the European Statistical System, Enlargement Policy, and European Neighbourhood Policy.[14]

In 2021, European Statistical System includes 4 EFTA countries, that is 3 EEA countries and Switzerland.[15]

EU Enlargement Policy includes "candidate countries" in the process of joining the EU and other potential candidates.[15]

In 2021, European Neighbourhood Policy covers 16 countries such as 6 ENP-East countries — Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine — and 10 ENP-South countries — Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria and Tunisia.[15]

The trade and cooperation agreement between the European Union and the United Kingdom — since 1 January 2021 — includes a provision on statistical cooperation that foresees the establishment of a specific future arrangement.[15]

Access to Eurostat statistics

The most important statistics are made available via press releases. They are placed on the Eurostat website at 11:00 in the morning. This is also the time that the press release content may be distributed to the public by press agencies.

Eurostat disseminates its statistics free of charge via its Internet and its statistical databases that are accessible via the Internet. The statistics are hierarchically ordered in a navigation tree. Tables are distinguished from multi-dimensional datasets from which the statistics are extracted via an interactive tool.

In addition various printed publications are available either in electronic form free on the internet or in printed form via the EU Bookshop. Only larger publications are charged for as printed copies.

Since September 2009 Eurostat has pioneered a fully electronical way of publishing, Statistics Explained,[16] like Wikipedia based on Mediawiki open source software and with a largely similar structure and navigation. Statistics Explained is not only a dissemination format, however, but also a wiki working platform for producing flagship publications like the Eurostat Yearbook.[17]

Statistical data for research purposes

Microdata, which in principle allows the identification of the statistical unit (e.g., a person in the labour force survey or a company for innovation statistics), is treated as strictly confidential. Under tight security procedures various anonymised datasets are provided to research institutions for validated research projects.

Location

Eurostat has been based in the Joseph Bech building, in the northeast of the Kirchberg quarter of Luxembourg City, since the building was opened in 1998.[18] The Directorate-General will relocate to the Jean Monnet 2 building, in the Kirchberg's European district, following the completion of the first phase of the building, expected in February 2023.[18]

See also

References

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External links

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