The Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia and the consortium, led by German consultancy company GOPA, organized the conference on the occasion of presenting the project „Strengthening the Serbian statistical system by upgrading methodologies and standards and by the appliance of good practice (IPA 2012)”, on September 8th, 2016 in hotel “Metropol Palace” in Belgrade.

The project, completely supported by EU funds (donation value of EUR 3.339.000), directed is to providing technical assistance and expertise to the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia (hereinafter: the Office), with the aim of improving availability, quality, comparability and timeliness of statistical data in accordance with the requirements of the process of harmonization with the European Statistical System. It is focused on three segments: further upgrading of information and communication system of the Office, upgrading of the System of national accounts regarding compilation of supply and use tables, as well as improving of the existing and development of new sustainable development indicators.  

The conference was first addressed by Mr. Pieter Everaers, in charge of cooperation within the European Statistical System and international cooperation. The introductory word and particular review of the project significance were given by Mr. Miladin Kovacevic, PhD, Director of the Office and Ms. Hristina Aleksandrova, Director of the project. Mira Nikic, Assistant Director of the Development and Information Department of the Office, Dusan Gavrilovic, Head of the Department for Regional Accounts and Input-Output Statistics and Tijana Comic, Head of the Sustainable Development Indicators Unit, as the leaders of the project, separately presented the importance of each of the components.

The conference was attended by the representatives of Eurostat, EU Delegation to Serbia, Italy, France and German embassies, GOPA consortium, Office of statistics Sweden in Belgrade, RATEL, UNICEF, Serbian European Integration Office, National Bank, Republic Secretariat for public policies, Serbian Business Registers Agency, ministries, Institute of Economic Sciences, National Employment Service, Central Register of Compulsory Social Insurance, Belgrade University, COMTRADE IT system, MICROSOFT, etc.   

The conference was appropriately covered by the media.

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