IPA 2017 Multi-beneficiary statistical cooperation programme
Grant Agreement Number: 2018.0267
Project duration: 01/05/2019 – 30/06/2022
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 is logical continuation of the projects implemented so far and it is conducted through Grant contract and Service contract. Within Grant contract 17 statistical areas are covered:
• Government Finance and Excessive Deficit Statistics
• HICP and HPI
• Price statistics –PPPs
• Business Registers
• Short-term business statistics: preparation for FRIBS
• Structural business statistics (SBS) and business demography statistics (BD)
• International Trade in Goods Statistics (ITGS)
• Labour Force Survey
• EU-SILC implementation
• Survey on gender based violence (GBV)
• Environmental accounts
• Quality management
• Metadata
• Macroeconomic imbalances procedure (MIP) indicators and underlying statistics
• The Use of Administrative Data for Better Statistics
• Continuing Vocational Training Survey (CVTS)
• Integrated data and information management of social protection benefits and other types of income
The following six projects are realized under the Service contract:
• National Accounts – Methodology
• Transmission programme, annual national accounts (ANA), quarterly national accounts (QNA) and quality reporting
• Regional accounts
• Sector Accounts
• Supply, use and input-output tables (SUT/IOT)
• Agriculural statistics.
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.