The purpose of this multi-country Statistical Co-operation Programme 2009 is to improve the provision and quality of official statistics, and maintain the achievements of compliance already reached through the past programmes of statistical assistance.

Overall objectives:

- Take the process of progressively integrating of Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia (SORS) into the European Statistical System (ESS) forward by strengthening the SORS and its coordinating role in the statistical system of Republic of Serbia.

- Project aims to continue to support sustainable capacity building of the SORS for better meet the needs of it’s users by providing data that is accurate, reliable, timely, and compiled in full compliance with the acquis.

- Intensify efforts to improve the quality of statistical information and to reinforce confidence in methods and professionalism.

 

Specific objectives:

- Improve the production, collection and dissemination of high quality statistics comparable with Community methods in key areas mainly related to newly adopted acquis.

- Improve the quality of statistical data, thus strengthening the administrative capacity via:

1. Joint implementation of sectoral projects corresponding to data production for the newly adopted acquis,

2. Improving the data quality through appropriate sectoral project(s)

3. Maintain the achievements of compliance already reached through the past programmes of statistical assistance

- The activities undertaken in the data collection projects are meant to increase the capacity to produce comparable dataand disseminate statistics in specific areas covered by the existing and newly adopted acquis communautaire.