Grant Agreement Number: 14463.2015.003-2016.506
Project duration: 01/07/2017 – 31/10/2019
EU contribution: 95%
Within the IPA programme framework, the European Commission, in cooperation with Eurostat, once again has awarded a direct grant to the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia, which represents a continuation of the work done so far and a confirmation that the successful cooperation will be resumed in future. Like in the previous IPA Multi-beneficiary programmes, the goal of this project is to upgrade the Serbian statistical system so to achieve harmonization with the European Statistical System by aligning the SORS present methodologies and output with the EU acquis In addition, the purpose of the project is to intensify efforts to improve the quality of statistical information and to reinforce confidence in methods and professionalism, thus providing policy makers and the international community with reliable statistical data.
Also, the purpose of this international programme of statistical cooperation is to improve the collection and the quality of official statistics that are comparable in key areas at the level of the EU, as well as to maintain the achieved harmonization within the already implemented statistical assistance programmes.
The project represents a logical continuation of the projects implemented so far and it covers 16 statistical areas:
• Government Finance and Excessive Deficit Statistics
• International trade in services statistics
• HICP
• Price statistics -PPPs
• Business Registers
• Short-term business statistics: implementation of ESS guidelines and standards
• Transport statistics – passenger and freight statistics
• Tourism statistics
• Labour Force Survey
• EU-SILC implementation
• Crop statistics: Annual crop statistics (ACS) and Permanent crop statistics
• Animal production statistics
• Agri-monetary statistics
• Environment statistics and environmental accounts
• Pilot population census
• Interoperability – Joined Up Data for Joined Up Government
In addition, the project envisages the attendance and participation at the Eurostat meetings, trainings in the country and abroad, missions of experts for the defined statistical areas, study visits, as well as several-month long additional vocational education of the SORS employees at the Eurostat and other statistical institutions of the Member States.