STATISTICAL COOPERATION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION EUROSTAT Marco LANCETTI

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STATISTICAL COOPERATION OF THE EUROPEAN
COMMISSION (EUROSTAT)Marco LANCETTI
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Table of contents

• Eurostat - Directorate General of the European
  Commission 3
  
• Eurostats mission statement 4
• Qualistat - 6 corporate objectives 5
• Programme for Community Statistics 2003 -
  2007 6
  
• Eurostats Organigramme 7
• Partnership for statistical co-operation 8
• Eurostat F-4 tasks 9
• Eurostat F-4 Main intervention areas 10
• Partnership agreements by regions 11
• Africa Regional co-operation projects 12
• Africa Bilateral co-operation project 13
• All ACP Regional co-operation 14
• MED countries co-operation 15
• Metagora 16
• MDG 17
• EUROTRACE 18
• ERETES 19
• Example - Parstat 20

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Eurostat - Directorate-General of the European
Commission
European Commission

• 20 Commissioners
• About 18 000 officials

Composition

• Right of initiative
• Power of execution
• International negotiations
• Monitoring of compliance with Community
  legislation

Powers

• 36 Directorates-General
• Horizontal Directorates (Legal service,
  Statistical Office ...)
  
• Sectoral Directorates (Economic and financial
  affairs, ...)

Organization
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Eurostats mission statement

• Our mission is to provide the European Union with
  a high-quality statistical information service.

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Qualistat - 6 corporate objectives

• implement customer oriented approach
• implement client relation with other European
• institutions and external users
• contribute to ESS development
• improve people motivation, satisfaction
• improve the quality of products and services
• increase our internal productivity

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Programme for Community Statistics 2003 - 2007
Focal areas

• Economic and Monetary Union
• Enlargement of the European Union
• Competititity, Sustanaible development and Social
  Agenda

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Eurostats Organigramme
General Director
About 600 statutory staff 100 other staff
Total budget M 150

• - Personal administrative matters
• - Work program Relations with MS
• Budgetary matters
• Legal matters Relations with EP
• Information dissemination

Single Market Employment Social Statistics
Directorate A A1 A5
Directorate D D1 D7
- Agricultural, - Environmental, - Fisheries
- Structural funds
Directorate B B1 - B5
Directorate E E1 E5

• - IT management information system
• Statistical Information Technology
• Research

- National accounts - Economic accounts - Public
finance Balance of Payment - Price economic
indicators EURO zone
- Demography, - Migration - International Trade

- Statistical cooperation
Directorate C C1 C6
Directorate F F1 - F5
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Partnership for statistical co-operation

• DG DEV (ACP), DG RELEX (ALA/MED, TACIS)
• AIDCO EuropeAid Co-operation Office
• Eurostat Statistical Support for DG DEV, RELEX
  et AIDCO
  
• ESS Statistical support for project
  implementation
  
• Beneficiaries (ACP - MED - ALA - CARDS - Phare
  Tacis
  
• countries, regional organisations)

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Eurostat F-4 tasks
ACP - ALA - MED

• Support for programming
• Projects identification (Regional projects have
  priority )
  
• Financial proposal work out
• Supervision / Monitoring of Project 
  implementation
  
• Project Evaluation
• Co-ordination with donors (EU Member States,
  EFTA,
  
• International Organisations (WB, IMF, OECD,
  Paris21)

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Eurostat F4 Main intervention areas

• Traditional areas
• Statistical programming
• External Trade statistics
• Price statistics
• National Accounts
• Agricultural statistics

• New areas
• Social Statistics,
• Poverty statistics
• Support Paris21 initiative
• Régional/National workshops
• Task teams (census - statistical programming -
  advocacy, agriculture - indicators

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Partnership agreements by regions

• Africa, Caribbean, Pacific (77 countries)
  Partnership agreement ACP-CE
  
• Asia Latin America (14 countries)
  Bilateral agreements
  
• Regional agreements (Mercosur /Andean
  Community)
  
• Mediterranean countries (10 countries)
• Regional agreement (Euro-Mediterranean
  Partnership)
  
• Bilateral agreements
• Phare (16 countries ) Tacis (12 countries)
• European agreements for partnership and
  co-operation -1991

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Eurostat F4 Africa Regional co-operation Projects

• West and Central Africa
• WAEMU - PARSTAT programme (1997 - 2003) M
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• WAMEU PARI 2 Statistical activities
  (2004-2005) M 0.86
  
• ECOWAS - ECOSTAT programme (2002 - 2004) M
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• CEMAC - Statistical support to the SE CEMAC
  (2002 - 2006) M 2
  
• West Africa Statistical activities (on going
  Feasibility Study) 9th EDF
  
• Central Africa PAIRAC Statistical activities
  (Feasibility Study) 9th EDF
  
• East and South Africa
• SADC - Statistical training and CPI 2003
  M 7.8
  
• COMESA - Customs and external trade statistics
  - 2000-2004 M 12.6
  
• PALOP countries
• Development of harmonised statistic - 5 year
  project M 2.4

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Eurostat F4 Africa Bilateral co-operation
Projects

• ACP countries
• Niger - Statistical strenthening for Poverty
  follow-up
  
• Niger - Agricultural census (financing
  proposal)
  
• Senegal Statistical capacity building
  (feasibility study)
  
• Angola support to NSO for poverty profil

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Eurostat F4 ALL ACP Regional co-operation
Projects

• Training in statistics (Comstat)
• 5 COMSTAT schools (3 in Africa Senegal-Ivory
  Coast-Cameroon)
  
• Statistical training on going programme

Statistical software

• EUROTRACE
• (External Trade Software)
• National installations
• 40 ACP
• Regional installations
• COMESA
• WAMEU
• ECOWAS

• ERETES
• (National Account Software)
• National installations
• 14 ACP
• Installation in
• ACP
• Overseas Departments
• Palop countries

• CHAPO
• (CPI Software)
• National installations
• 10 ACP
• Regional installations
• WAMEU and CEMAC

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Eurostat F4 MED countries

• MEDSTAT - Regional Co-operation with
  Mediterranean countries
  
• MEDSTAT I 1996 - 2003 M 20
• 12 Beneficiaries Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia,
  Egypt, Malta, Cyprus, Turkey, Syria, Jordan,
  Lebanon, Israel, West Bank Gaza Strip
  
• Domains covered Transport, Migration, Tourism,
  External Trade, National Account, Non observed
  Economy, Environment, Information system and
  Training
• MEDSTAT II 2002 - 2006 M 30
• 10 Beneficiaries Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia,
  Egypt, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel,
  West Bank Gaza Strip
  
• Domains covered Transport, Migration, Tourism,
  External Trade, National Account, Environment,
  Agriculture, social statistics, Information
  system and Training
• WEST BANK GAZA STRIP- Bilateral Co-operation
• Duration 2000-2005 M 2
• Domains covered External trade, Business
  register, Prices, Agriculture, Tourism and
  Training

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METAGORA

• This project (2.25m began Feb 2004) aims to
  pilot the development of new methods for
  monitoring good governance, democracy and human
  rights
• In addition one of the tasks of the secretariat
  is to take forward work towards international
  agreement on a set of governance indicators.
  
• One pilot will take place in South Africa (Land
  rights, work undertaken by a local NGO).
  
• Another includes various West African countries
  (DIAL 1-2-3- governance modules) The other pilots
  are taking place in Latin America and Asia.

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MDGs Paris21 task force support

• A PARIS21 task force was set up to look at
  obstacles to the availability of MDG data.
  
• The work took place at 2 levels. One report notes
  the problems in the international system, another
  set concerns the countries.
  
• To date we have only a partially completed draft
  of a report for Yemen, which highlights the usual
  problems of under funding, poor planning and an
  overwhelming lack of donor coordination.
• The reports will be published in a consolidated
  form during summer 2004 by World Bank.

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EUROTRACE

• Eurotrace national installed in about 62
  countries
  
• New software development
• Windows version
• Test phase 2002 - 2003
• Pilot region (Comesa)
• Workshop for softwares presentation - 2003
• Marketing Version - end 2003

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ERETES
A structured information system for compiling the
national accounts (SNA 93)
Owner of the Software European Commission
French Ministry of foreign Affairs
Support (National Account IT)
Technical Team (INSEE Eurostat experts)

• Implementation
• 7 missions (including Software installation and
  training)
  
• Duration 2 years

• Languages
• French (FR)
• English (EN)
• Spanish (ES)

• Installed in
• ACP - Africa All UEMOA Countries - Central
  African Rep - Cameroon Gabon- Mauritania -
  
• Ghana - Nigeria - Botswana - Madagascar Cap
  verde
  
• Mediterranean countries Morocco - Tunisia -
  Algeria
  
• Overseas Departments Martinique -Guadeloupe -
  Guyana - Reunion Island
  
• Latin America Ecuador - Peru - Brazil -
  Colombia

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Example - PARSTAT

• Beneficiaries
• Benin
• Burkina-Faso
• Ivory Coast
• Mali
• Niger
• Senegal
• Togo
• Guinea-Bissau

• Actors
• UEMOA Commission
• Eurostat-C3
• Afristat
• INS (Member States)
• CESD-Communautaire

• Agreements
• Financial agreement (1996)
• Service agreement - CESD-C
• Grant agreement - Afristat
• Regional Devis Programme

Phase PCM Implementation phase

• Budget 4.6 Mio d 
• Deadline 31/12/2003

• Specific objectives
• National Account Harmonisation
• Non observed economy employmt
• IPI Harmonisation
• Complementary Statistics
• HCPI
• External Trade statistics
• Report short term statistics
• Competitivity database
• Support for NSS and MS

• Management tools
• Steering Committee
• Technical Committee for project follow-up
• Monitoring reports
• Quarterly reports
• External project evaluation
• Local representation of Eurostat
• Technical assistant

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ank you for your attention contact personMarco
LANCETTITel 352 43 01 32388Fax [phone]
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