Grant Agreement Number: 2020.0253
Project duration: 01/09/2021 – 31/03/2024
EU contribution: 100%
The Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia (SORS) has been awarded a direct grant by the European Commission, in cooperation with Eurostat, within the Multi-Beneficiary Programme IPA 2019 framework (The Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance), which represents continuation of the work done so far with purpose to improve the statistical system of the Republic of Serbia in order to achieve harmonization with the European Statistical System (ESS), by strengthening the SORS and its coordination role in the country's statistical system as well as aligning methodologies with European Union legislation.
The program continues to support the strengthening of SORS administrative capacity in order to improve the quality of statistical information and to reinforce confidence in methods and professionalism, provide data that is accurate, reliable, and timely collected in full compliance with EU legal framework along with dissemination of results according to user needs.
The project presents continuation of previously implemented programmes and it is conducted through Grant contract and Service contract. Within Grant contract, SORS will implement the following 10 statistical projects:
• Government Finance and Excessive Deficit Statistics
• Harmonized Indices of Consumer prices (HICP) and House Price Index (HPI)
• Price statistics - PPP
• Short-term business statistics (STS): Implementation of FRIBS
• International Trade in Goods Statistics (ITGS)
• Labour Force Survey (LFS)
• Environmental accounts and forestry
• Quality management
• Implementation of standards for data and metadata exchange
• Introduction of new administrative sources in the production of the official statistics (NASP)
The following five projects will be 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)
These projects usually include an assessment of the situation in a particular area with special emphasis on data quality, targeted statistical technical assistance, training and the provision of special expertise to help countries develop and implement appropriate methodologies in order to collect statistical data and disseminate final results.
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.