Dr Miladin Kovačević, Director General of the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia (SORS) and dr Delina Ibrahimaj, Director General of the Albanian Institute for Statistics (INSTAT), signed a Memorandum of Understanding on 17 July 2017. The Memorandum creates a general framework and conditions for the efficient co-operation. It supports a variety of activities and promotes to set objectives and procedures of mutual co-operation for sharing information and exchanging views and experience in order to facilitate developments and implementation of common statistical activities. The Parties agreed to undertake activities in all possible and available forms appropriate for the objective implementation, such as sharing best practice, exchanging experience, creating network, etc. Furthermore, this co-operation shall promote professional behaviour in accordance to the European Statistics Code of Practice and provide a forum for the exchange of experience among the two countries. Within the framework of INSTAT project IPA 2013 „Support to the Improvement of Statistical Information System“ SORS will provide support to INSTAT in developing the integrated IT system. Beside these activities, SORS and INSTAT will cooperate in other fields as well, with aim of exchange the know-how and statistical best practices.

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