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Working Groups and Task Forces mandatesDirectorate F

EUROPEAN COMMISSIONEUROSTAT

Directorate F: Social Statistics and Information Society

Doc. Eurostat/F/07/SDG/01/04/EN

DOCUMENT FOR POINT IV OF THE AGENDAWORKING GROUPS AND TASK FORCES

STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT GROUP

BRUSSELS, 2 FEBRUARY 2007

J-54 BUILDING, ROOM 2/121

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Concerning the WG-TF structure you will find:

1. A comprehensive list of WG and TF under the responsibility of Directorate F "Social and information society statistics".

In fact there are two different types of WG. - The first one refers to the main working structure for a theme or sub-theme. The list of these WG is: F1 - Demography and Censuses - Migration - Population Projections F2 - Labour Market - Time use F3 - Social protection (ESSPROS) - Living Conditions F4 - Science, Technology and innovation - Education and Training - Culture F5 - Food Safety - Public Health - Health and Safety at Work - Crime and criminal justice F6 - Information Society - Tourism They all report (except tourism) to the DSS.

- The second type of WG concerns meeting with all the MS (contrary to TF which only gather some MS) but for specific tasks (see for instance the Technical groups related to Public Health).

2. The list of meetings planned for 2007

3. The evaluation of the Labour Market Statistics Working Group (LAMAS) which was the fisrt experience of reengineering the working structure of the labour market domain.

4. A proposal for rationalising WG and TF in unit F1 (Demography)

The SDG is asked to comment on these documents and proposal before forwarding to the DSS.

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List of Working groups and Task forces

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Unit: F3

Title: TF EHS (European System of Social Statistical Survey Modules)

SG Code (Register of experts groups) E01485

Date of creation: September 2005

Origin:Decision of the DSS (Directors of Social Statistics) meeting in September 2005 to develop this system of survey modules

Legal basis:

Mandate:

Develop the main aspects of the system of survey modules: Develop the structure of the system Develop the sampling aspects Develop the fieldwork aspects Develop costs/legal procedures aspects Prepare technical/methodological documents for decision by the DSS/SPC

Frequency of meetings:Three times a year

Participants: Number of participants: 15 11 responsible persons for household surveys in the EU Member Statesalso invited: DG EMPL, DG EACType of experts: governmental

Type of activities:

Other related structures: DSS

Reporting authority:Sector group "European directors of social Statistics", SPC

Additional information:-

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Unit: F1

Title: Working Group on Demographic Statistics and Population and Housing Censuses

Date of creation:

Origin:

Legal basis:

None

Mandate: - To exchange information and know-how in the area of demographic statistics and censuses and to promote best practices

Frequency of meetings:

Every two years.

Participants:

Representatives of the NSIs or other national authorities responsible for demographic statistics and censuses of all Member States, EFTA, Candidate Countries and other European countries

Commission services, in particular DG ECFIN, DG EMPL, DG REGIO

International organisations: UN-ECE, UNSD

Research Institutes: Max Planck Demographic Institute for Research, Vienna Institute of Demography, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, Institut national d'études démographiques

Other related structures:TF on Census; TF on life expectancy by SEG; WG on Population Projections

Reporting authority: DSS

Additional information:

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Demography:

Task Force on life expectancy by socio-economic groups

Mandate: - to discuss national experiences and best practises and identify relevant indicators, as well as data sources and methods;

- to prepare recommendations on methodological issues - to assist Eurostat in the technical and methodological work involved.

Frequency: Maximum 2 times per year

Duration: 1 year (2007)

Participants: Member States, researchers and other DG Services.

Census:

Task Force on the implementation of the 2011 census

Mandate: - to identify and resolve areas of difficulty relating to the implementation of the planned framework legislation on population and housing censuses.

- to provide the Commission with expert technical advice for the preparation of implementing measures (Commission Regulation) resulting from the adoption of the framework legislation.



Participants: Eurostat, UN ECE, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Austria, Portugal, Sweden, United Kingdom.

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Unit: F1

Title: Working Group on Migration Statistics

Date of creation: 1992 (earlier ad hoc meetings)

Origin:

The WG was established to co-ordinate Eurostat's data collections on migration statistics.

Legal basis:

None.

Mandate: - To co-ordinate the collection of statistical data on migration, in particular the annual statistics on migration flows, foreign population stocks, and on labour migration.

- To assist with the development and subsequent implementation of legislation for migration statistics.


Every two years – next planned for early 2008.

Participants:

Representatives of the NSIs of all Member States, EFTA and Candidate Countries. Increasingly, NSI representatives are accompanied by Interior Ministry colleagues also involved in migration statistics.

Commission services, in particular DG JLS, DG EMPL

International organisations: UN Statistical Division, UNECE, ILO, Council of Europe

Other related structures:

Joint UNECE/Eurostat Work Session on Migration Statistics

Task Force on the implementation of legislation for Community statistics on migration and asylum



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Migration statistics:

Task Force: Implementation of legislation for Community statistics on migration and asylum

Mandate: - To identify and resolve areas of difficulty relating to the implementation of the forthcoming framework legislation on migration and asylum statistics.

- To provide the Commission with expert technical advice for the preparation of implementing measures (Commission Regulations) resulting from the adoption of the framework legislation.

Frequency: 4-5 times per year

Duration: 2 years (from June 2006)

Participants: 5 MS plus DG JLS.(UNECE or UNHCR may be invited according to subject under discussion)

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Unit: F1

Title: Working Group on Population Projections

Date of creation: 1997

Origin:

The constitution of the group was decided in accordance with the Member States in order to discuss issues linked to population projections prepared by Eurostat and present results from relevant research projects. Before EUROPOP2004, Member States participating in the Working Group were only informed of the results. From EUROPOP2004, Member States were consulted on the assumptions and the results and were extensively involved considering the importance of the subject. In November 2006, a Task Force was created to elaborate the methodological aspects for fertility, mortality and international migration in the context of population projections.

Legal basis:

None

Mandate:

- To discuss Eurostat population projections (EUROPOP) assumptions and results with Member States, representatives of the policy departments of the European Commission (DG ECFIN, DG EMPL, DG REGIO, DG SANCO) and the Research community.

- To exchange information and know-how in the area of population projections and to promote best practices

- To supervise the work of the Task Force on EU Methodology for Population Projections


Every two years (mostly before the release of EUROPOP)

Participants:

Representatives of the NSIs or other national authorities responsible for population projections of all Member States, EFTA and Candidate Countries

Commission services, in particular DG ECFIN, DG EMPL, DG REGIO, DG SANCO

International organisations: UNECE

Research Institutes: Max Planck Demographic Institute for Research, Vienna Institute of Demography, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, Institut national d'études démographiques (INED)

Other related structures:WG on Demographic Statistics and Population and Housing Censuses



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Population Projections:

Task Force on EU Methodology for population projections

Mandate: - to prepare recommendations on methodological issues for determining assumptions for population projections

- to assist Eurostat in the technical and methodological work involved.



Participants: Member States interested in contributing to the specific developments

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Unit: F2

Title: Labour Market Statistics WG

Date of creation: April 2005 (first meeting)

Origin:

The constitution of the working group was decided in 2004. The working group combines three earlier working groups existed until autumn 2004:

Employment StatisticsEarnings and Labour Costs StatisticsLabour Market Policies

Legal basis:

Council Regulations for the majority of the work in the domain are 577/99 and 530/99 and 450/2003.

Mandate:

- To discuss strategies and measures to develop labour market statistics in line with policy requirements. These concern all aspects of labour market covered by the domain : employment, unemployment, labour costs and earnings, job vacancies, labour market policies, strikes, time-use surveys and gender statistics

- To initiate Community legislative acts for labour market statistics

- To monitor the implementation of the legal framework of labour market statistics

- To supervise the work of specific task forces

- To examine and discuss the concepts, comparability, data collection and transmission of labour market statistics, to exchange information and know-how in the area of labour market statistics and to promote best practices


Bi-annual

Participants:

Representatives of the NSIs or other national authorities responsible for labour market statistics of EU Member States, Candidate and CARDS countries, EFTA countries

Commission services, in particular DG EMPL

International organisations: OECD, ILO, UNICE

The ECB


OECD working party on ….?

Task Forces

Reporting authority: DSS, SPC


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Labour Market Statistics: TASK FORCES

Task Force: Gender Pay Gap

Mandate: • evaluation the validity and feasibility of the present definition of GPG (in theory and through simulation of different definitions with available 2002 SES data)

• consideration of the Structure of Earnings Survey based GPG production models (definitions, coverage, updates between the SES surveys, back revisions after the new Structure of Earnings Survey data)

• consideration of the feasible breakdowns of the GPG (annual/4 yearly) and approaches to follow for public/private estimates.

• evaluation of the methodology for calculating the aggregates • preparation of recommendations for DSS for improved GPG indicators.

Established: 2006

Frequency: not defined – First meeting Q1/2007

Duration: not defined

Participants: 7 MS plus UNECE (and UNICE as remote commentator)

Task Force: Job Vacancies

Mandate: To recommend a draft regulatory framework for the implementation of short-term and structural statistics on job vacancies, taking into account the needs of users and the practical experiences of Member States in this field.

Established: 2005

Frequency: two meetings per year


Participants: 8 MS plus ECB and DG EMPL

Task Force: Evaluation of the LFS ad hoc module 2006

Mandate: ● Assessment of the implementation of the ad hoc module in 2006● Assessment of the quality of the data that were collected in 2006● Recommendations for the benefit of future repetitions of the module

Established: not yet; will be established in a Working Group LAMAS in 2007

Frequency: One meeting Q4/2007

Duration: 1 day

Participants: 5 to 7 Member States and DG EMPL - as several methods of data collection are used among the 25 Member States, the ideal composition of the Task Force should include representatives of Member States as heterogeneous as possible (collection techniques, possibly also old/new, big/small)

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Task Force: Preparation of 2010 ad hoc module

Mandate: • Not yet defined

Established: 2007?

Frequency:

Duration:

Participants:

Task Force: the European Socio-economic Classification

Mandate:- review the objectives of the classification, highlighting the main issues of the current proposal,- study and summarise the NSI contributions presented in the Bled conference in June 2006,- propose specific validation and improvement procedures focussing on countries comparability,- set guidelines for a new version of the classification and for an EU wide pilot testing in relation with the classification ISCO 2008.

Established: 2006

Frequency: not defined – First meeting April 2007


Participants: 7 MS

Task Force: "Labour Market Policy" on Methodology

Mandate

1. Development of a definition of "Assisted activation", and a methodology to collect data on "assisted activation".

2. Improvement of guidelines for data collection in difficult methodological items. 3. Identification of additional LMP information, concerning other relevant programmes, related to

labour market interventions which are not included in the LMP database because they are out of the LMP scope, while at the same time they play an important role in the labour market interventions of some countries.

4. Establish guidelines for follow-up studies of participants in active measures.

Established: 2006

Frequency: not defined – First meeting 8-9.02 2007 – Second meeting Q3/2007


Participants: 8 MS plus OECD and ECB

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Labour Market Statistics: SEMINARS / WORKSHOPS

Workshop: LCI Work Shop on NACE 2

Objective: • to support the Member States in their transition from NACE Rev.1.1 to NACE Rev.2 from first quarter 2009 on (with the requested backdata from 2000 on)

• to spread the information and know-how and promote the best practices

Established: 2007

Frequency: Only meeting 5-6 February 2007

Duration: One meeting

Participants: All EU Member States +

Workshop: LFS methods

Objective:

Established: 2006

Frequency:

Duration: indefinite

Participants: All EU Member States +

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Unit: F2

Title: WG TUS - Time use surveys

Date of creation: Dec. 1994

Origin:Decisions of SPC of December 1994 and of March 1998

Legal basis: Gentlemen agreement

Mandate: to launch Time Use pilot surveys to develop guidelines on harmonised European time use surveysto monitor development of TUS surveys and diffusion of data

to advise on the implementation of a EU harmonized TUS database

Frequency of meetings:Annual

Participants: Number of participants: 50 Delegates from all Member statesalso invited: delegates from all PHARE countries, DG EMPL

Type of experts: governmental

Type of activities: permanente, élaboration législative,coordination des Etats membres, échange de vues

Other related structures:task force to develop a methodology and EU harmonize TUS database



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Time use surveys: TASK FORCES

Task Force: The update of the 2002 TUS methodology

Mandate: - to revise the TUS methodology in those aspects needed before the implementation of the new wave of TUS surveys 2008-2010 by the end of 2007- To complete the revision by the end of 208

Established:

Frequency: Once per year

Duration: Three years: from 2006 to 2008

Participants: Seven MS, DG EM

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Unit: F3

Title: WG Social protection (ESSPROS)



Origin:

Legal basis:In development

Mandate: develop a legal basis coordinate data collection (transmission, publication) for Member States, EFTA countries and discuss

about enlargement to candidate countries for the core system and for the number of pensions' beneficiaries

assessment of the work programme on social protection statistics follow-up of developments of the full ESSPROS: qualitative information, net social protection benefits methodological developments: discussion on new forms of social protectionuse of ESSPROS data: exchange between users and national producers

Frequency of meetings:Once a year

Participants: Number of participants: 50 Member States, candidate countries EFTA countries OECDDG EMPL


Type of activities: permanent, legislative drafting,Member State coordination, exchange of views

Other related structures:Task Force on Net social protection benefits and methodological Task Force


Additional information:Transmission of validated ESSPROS data to the OECD for the social expenditure database SOCX

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Unit: F3

Title: TF Net social protection benefits


Date of creation: June 1999

Origin:Decision of the Social Protection (ESSPROS) Working Group


Mandate:Module of the ESSPROS system to complete ESSPROS with data on net social protection benefits: Develop a legal basis on the net social protection benefits module Prepare, coordinate and evaluate a pilot data collection carried out in 2008 Developing the methodology of a basic module and its expandability Collect data on direct taxation and social contributions paid on benefits by beneficiaries and data on

tax credits with a social purpose (fiscal benefits)

Frequency of meetings:Twice a year

Participants: nine EU countries OECDDG EMPL, DG TAXUD

Other related structures: Following the work of DG TAXUD: working group “Structures of the Taxation Systems” Following the work of OECD: DEELSA working group No.1 on Social Policy, DAFFE working group No. 2

on Tax Policy Analysis and Tax Statistics

Reporting authority:Reports to the Social Protection working group

Additional information:Close co-operation and data exchange with OECD in the field of net social protection expenditure

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Unit: F3

Title: TF ESSPROS methodology


Date of creation: June 1999

Origin:Decision of the Social Protection (ESSPROS) Working Group


Mandate: Propose improvements to the ESSPROS 1996 methodologyHelp develop the ESSPROS Commission regulations on the core system and on the modules


Participants: five EU countries OECDDG EMPL

Other related structures:ESSPROS Working Group meeting

Reporting authority:ESSPROS Working Group meeting

Additional information:Close co-operation and data exchange with OECD in the field of net social protection benefits

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Unit: F3

Title: WG Living conditions


Date of creation: April 2005

Origin:Eurostat decision to rationalise Working Group meetings in social statistics. Consequently, the previous Household Budget Surveys (HBS), Income, poverty and social exclusion (IPSE) and EU-SILC (Community Statistics on Income and Living conditions) have been merged into one ‘Living conditions’ Working Group.

Legal basis:For the SILC project: Regulation N° 1177/2003 of the Council and EP concerning Community Statistics on Income and Living Conditions complemented by implementing Commission regulations

Mandate: Compile the existing information in the Member States on Household budgets in order to make all this

data available at European level as well as to improve harmonisation of surveys in terms of concepts used, classification of variables, data collection and data processing methods.

To develop all aspects of the EU-SILC project in EU and Candidate Countries, NO and IS:- legal aspects (Framework and implementing Commission Regulations)- methodological aspects (weighting, imputation (INR and net/gross conversion), imputed rent)- informatic aspects (data collection)- field aspects- output aspects (data base, publications)

Compile (based on national data sources) or produce (based on SILC micro-data) data on income, poverty and social exclusion

Frequency of meetings:Annual

Participants: Number of participants: 70 responsible persons for the EU-SILC, HBs and poverty projects in the EU and CC NSIs + NO and IS

NSIs, CHalso invited: DG EMPLType of experts: governmental


Other related structures:- SILC Task Forces on the annual modules, on anonymisation of the SILC data and on current methodological issues



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Unit: F3

Title: TF SILC modules


Date of creation: January 2005

Origin:Eurostat decision to better prepare annually together with the Member States and DG EMPL the annual Commission regulation implementing EP and Council N° 1177/2003 on EU-SILC on the module added annually to the annual list of variables (target primary variables).

Legal basis:Regulation N° 1177/2003 of the Council and EP concerning Community Statistics on Income and Living Conditions

Mandate: Define the list of variables, codes and corresponding definitions to be included annually in a

Commission regulation implementing regulation N° 1177/2003


Participants: Number of participants: 10 5 responsible persons for the EU-SILC project in the EU Member Statesalso invited: DG EMPLType of experts: governmental

Type of activities: Development of a list of variables

Other related structures: ‘Living Conditions’ Working Group

Reporting authority:‘Living Conditions’ Working Group, Sector group "European directors of social Statistics", SPC


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Unit: F3

Title: TF SILC – methodological issues


Date of creation: January 2005

Origin:Eurostat decision to have in-depth methodological discussions and exchange of best practises

Legal basis:Regulation N° 1177/2003 of the Council and EP concerning Community Statistics on Income and Living Conditions

Mandate: Identify the main methodological problems of the SILC instrument Collect and analyse solutions implemented in MS Identify best practises and ensure their dissemination Identify and study problems of comparability Suggest and coordinate methodological work to be carried out in the MS and Eurostat

Frequency of meetings:Three times a year

Participants: Number of participants: 10 5 responsible persons for methodology in the EU Member Statesalso invited: DG EMPLType of experts: governmental

Type of activities:

Other related structures: ‘Living Conditions’ Working Group

Reporting authority:‘Living Conditions’ Working Group, Sector group "European directors of social Statistics", SPC


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Unit: F4

Title: WG Statistics on Science, Technology and Innovation


Origin:

Based on the increasing user needs, the domain and corresponding working group on Statistics on Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) was created at Eurostat.

Legal basis:

EP/Council Decision 1608/2003 concerning the production and development of Community Statistics on science and technology

Commission Regulation No 753/2004 implementing EP/Council Decision No 1608/2003 as regards statistics on science and technology

Commission Regulation No 1450/2004 implementing EP/Council Decision No 1608/2003 concerning the production and development of Community statistics on innovation

Mandate:

STI statistics are considered as multi-domain statistics; The mandate is:

- To deal with innovation statistics: methodology, questionnaires, data collection, data production, data dissemination

- To deal with R & D statistics: methodology, questionnaires, data collection, data production, data dissemination

- To deal with Statistics on Human Resources in Science and Technology (HRST): methodology, questionnaires, data collection, data production, data dissemination including the Statistics on the Career Development of Doctorate Holders

- To deal with patent statistics: methodology, data collection, data production, data dissemination

- To deal with statistics on high tech industries and knowledge based services (including statistics on venture capital): methodology, data collection, data production, data dissemination

- To deal with all general issues on STI Statistics such as strategy, new developments, legislation, structural indicators, etc.


Annual

Participants:

Representatives of the NSIs or other national authorities responsible for STI statistics of all Member States, EFTA and Candidate Countries, other countries (USA, Japan, South Africa, Russia, etc.)

Commission services, in particular DG ENTR and DG RTD

International organisations: OECD, UNESCO, EPO, WIPO, Rycid, etc.

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OECD working party STI statistics (NESTI)

UNESCO working party on STI statistics

Reporting authority: BSDG


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STI statistics: TASK FORCE: Innovation statistics

Mandate: - to prepare the current innovation surveys - to monitor the implementation of the surveys at national level - to discuss data collection, production, dissemination, legislation - to discuss the methodological base ( = Oslo Manual)

Frequency: 2 times per year

Duration: on certain tasks up to two years, depending on the work progress

Participants: around 15 countries

STI statistics: TASK FORCE: STI statistics, in particular R & D statistics

Mandate: - to deal with specific issues on STI statistics (such as EP/Council reports) - to prepare the annual R & D surveys - to deal with methodological and data quality issues (Frascati Manual) - to discuss data collection, production, dissemination, legislation- to work on the nomenclature related to R & D statistics (NABS, FOS, etc.)


Duration: up to three years, depending on the work progress

Participants: around 15 countries

STI statistics: TASK FORCE: Statistics on Human Resources on Science and Technology

Mandate: - to discuss and prepare the survey on the Career Development of Doctorate Holders (together with the OECD and UNESCO)

- to discuss the general HRST data production and the use of other data sources such as the census

- to prepare the revision of the methodology (Canberra Manual)


Duration: up to two years, depending on the work progress

Participants: around 20 countries (also non EU countries)

Inter-institutional Steering group: Patent statistics

Mandate: - to discuss the setting up an internationally accessible raw data base on patent data (PATSTAT)

- to discuss data collection, production, dissemination, legislation and methodology

Frequency: 1 time per year

Duration: up to three years, depending on the work progress

Participants: 6 international institutions (OECD, Eurostat, WIPO, EPO, JPO, USPTO,), and some countries (National Science Foundation, US, China, Korea, etc.)

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Unit: Education, Science and Culture Statistics F4

Title: Education and Training Statistics Working Group (ETS)

Date of creation: goes back at least to 1995 and possibly before (see below, eventually to be confirmed)

Origin:The principal legal basis for our work in this area is the COUNCIL RESOLUTION of 5

December 1994 on the promotion of education and training statistics in the European Union (94/C 374/02). In this the Council requests "…those responsible for the statistical services at Union level (Eurostat) and the Working Party of Education Statistics to expedite the necessary development work to ensure supply of quality data which is comparable and as up-to-date as possible, account being taken of the data bases and instruments already in existence and observing the principle of data collection organized on a decentralized basis. " The Working Party of Education statistics was given its current name (Education and Training Statistics) to accommodate the concrete identification of tasks that resulted after the adoption of the Socrates and Leonardo da Vinci programmes of the European Commission in 1995.

Legal basis:

Council Resolution 5/12/1994 (94/C 374/02)

A Council/EP regulation is in the pipeline and expected to be adopted during 2007. Title: 'Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the production and development of statistics on education and lifelong learning', Brussels, 6.12.2005, COM (2005) 625 final, 2005/0248 (COD).

Mandate: - The working group should assist Eurostat in its pursuit of the goal of providing statistics on education and training that are comparable at European level and which are of sufficient quality to meet the needs of the European Union and the public and policy makers at European and national levels. It will support and monitor developments in education and training statistics and encourage and assist ESS countries to get actively involved in the production of comparable data at European level. At the operational level it will achieve this objective also through its Technical Subgroups on UOE and VET as well as through ad-hoc groups like the CVTS Working Group, the Task Force on measuring lifelong learning, the subgroup on education in the Community LFS etc. Report on the work of these groups should be given at the plenary meetings of the ETS Working Party.

Tasks and functionsSupport to the implementation of the statistical parts of the Community action programmes in the areas of education and training. In this framework members of the working group may be asked to participate in meetings in other Commission activities related to statistics and indicators.Evaluation and discussion of strategic plans and priorities for education and training statistics presented by Eurostat.

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Co-ordination between Eurostat and organisations at national level for the collection of statistical information required for use in EU policy making.Broad methodological discussions on the basis of detailed methodological discussions in the relevant technical subgroups.Exchange of best practises and know-howExchange of information on requirements and policies


At least annually

Participants:

Representatives of the NSIs and Ministries of Education or other national authorities responsible for education and training statistics of all Member States, EFTA and Candidate Countries

Commision services, in particular DG EAC, but also DG EMPL, DG ECFIN, DG REGIO, DG ENTR, DG RTD, JRC, CEDEFOP etc.

International organisations: OECD, UNESCO


OECD Technical Group on Education indicators (INES TG)

DG EAC: Standing Group of Indicators and Benchmarks (SGIB)

Reporting authority: to the DSS and the SPC

Additional information: Related structures: The Education and Training Statistics Working Party reports to the Statistical Programme Committee. It is supervising technical subgroups for CVTS and UOE as well as for "Education in the Community Labour Force Survey".

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Unit: Education, Science and Culture Statistics F4

Title: Working Group on Cultural Statistics

Date of creation: Mandate - 31 March 2000

Origin:At its meeting of 25 November 1999, the Statistical Programme Committee decided to set up within Eurostat a Working Group on Cultural Statistics in the context of adoption of the final report of the LEG - Culture.

Legal basis:

No legal basis

Mandate: The goal of the Working Group is the identification, collation, analysis and dissemination of cultural statistics that are comparable at European level and which are of sufficient quality to meet the needs of the European Union and the public and policy makers at European and national levels.It should support and monitor developments in cultural statistics and encourage Member States to get involved in the production of comparable data at European level.

Tasks and functions

The Working Group should be output-driven. The main outputs should be:

a. Reports from the on-going dialogue with policy and other users in order to understand their requirements.

b. Take overall responsibility for the implementation of the LEG project on cultural statistics and advise Eurostat on annual and medium-term programming on cultural statistics;

c. Report on areas on which consensus has been reached and disseminate comparable cultural statistics on these areas;

d. Decide on priority areas and on developments of the appropriate harmonisation of methods, providing impetus to the work in this area;

e. Produce and publish comparable statistics to meet user needs in the priority areas, having evaluated and analysed data collected by Member States;

f. Disseminate information on best practice in gathering and analysing cultural data. Undertake collaboration with international bodies active in this field and support Eurostat in the establishment of a co-ordinated approach with organisations outside the European Statistical System (Council of Europe, OECD and UNESCO).


Annual

Participants:Two representatives per Member State/EFTA/CC coming from the administrations responsible for the production of cultural statistics and/or government users.

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Other related structures:The Task Forces (on cultural employment, cultural participation and expenditure and finance) were set up and managed as projects by the WG with specified outputs, workplans and timescales.

Reporting authority: SPC


The last WG meeting took place in March 2004 and no further meetings were organised because of the consideration of the cultural statistics as a low priority for Eurostat.

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Unit: F5

Title: WG Food safety statistics


Date of creation: 10 April 2003

Origin: Commitment done by Eurostat to the CEIES for taking into account this new policy in November 1999Agreement from the Agricultural Statistics Committee (ASA) held in November 2002

Legal basis:Related to EP and Council Regulation n°178/2002 (OJ n°031 of 01.02.2002, p.1) (text)

Mandate: To create and settle the statistics relevant to food safety. The mandate of this working group covers as well the previous one concerning the improvements of the agro-industry statistics.

Frequency of meetings: Once a year as a “plenary session”, and to complete with tasks forces of experts.

Participants: Number of participants: 50 Data providers from the Members States, Acceding and Candidate Countries designated by the

members of the Agricultural Statistics Committee (ASA) belonging to ministries of Agriculture, food or statistical agencies

EFTA countries and FAOType of experts: governmental

Type of activities: permanent, strategic decisions,Member State coordination, exchange of views

Other related structures:European Food Safety Agency

Reporting authority:Agricultural Statistics Committee (ASA)


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Unit: F5

Title: WG Technical group on control and monitoring activities


Date of creation: 01/01/2007

Origin: Extension to all MS acceding and , EEA/EFTA, Acceding and candidate countries of the work started in 2004 by the Task Force on Control and monitoring activities. This field was confirmed as a priority area for the development of Food safety statistics by the Reflection Group set up in 2005.

Legal basis: Community statistical programme

Mandate: To provide technical support and advice to Eurostat in the development of statistics on Food and feed control and monitoring activities

Frequency of meetings: Once a year

Participants: Number of participants: 3525 MS / AC + CC + EFTA / Commission servicesType of experts: governmental experts


Type of activities: implementation of methodology,Member State coordination, exchange of views

Reporting authority: Working Group Food safety statistics


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Unit: F5

Title: TF Food consumption

SG Code (Register of experts groups) XXXX

Date of creation: 2005 01/01/2005

Origin: At their meeting of 2-3 December 2004, the Working Group on Food safety agreed to establish this TF at the beginning of 2005.


Mandate: To analyse data needs, to complete the inventory of national methodologies and data sources and to propose common indicators on food consumption as well as a common methodology for data collection


Participants: Number of participants: 1710-12 MS/Commission services/EFSAType of experts: governmental experts


Type of activities: expert advice, preparation of methodology



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Unit: F5

Title: TF Human health issues related to food safety

SG Code (Register of experts groups) XXXX

Date of creation: 01/01/2007

Origin: At their meeting of 24-25 November 2006, the Working Group on Food safety agreed with the proposal of the Reflection Group to establish this TF at the beginning of 2007.


Mandate: To analyse the possibility to provide statistical information on the health status of the population in relation to food safety.


Participants: Number of participants: 1710-12 MS/Commission services/EFSAType of experts: governmental experts


Type of activities: temporary – expert advice



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Unit: F5Title: WG Public healthSG Code (Register of experts groups) E01539Date of creation: 1996Origin: the working group was created in 1996; its activities and work planning (mandate) were endorsed by

the SPC in 1997 the working group was established in order to develop a general and consistent system of health

statistics at EU level; in addition, the Treaties of Maastricht and Amsterdam placed health policies higher on the agenda of the Commission

The DSS adopted the new Partnership on Health Statistics at their annual meeting on 22-23/04/2002 which confirmed the role of the working group and established the Technical and Core groups (see below) working in the framework of the work programme established annually by the working group

Legal basis:

Mandate: propose goals and agree on programmes and general proposals for implementation of Public Health

statistics; the Member States continue, together with Eurostat, to steer developments in the Core groups and discuss and decide on detailed implementation in the Technical groups. The work is closely linked to actions under the Programme of Community action in the field of Public Health 2003-2008 (see below) and other Community programmes related to public health. The work builds on the Partnership Health and is carried out in co-operation with international organisations such as WHO and OECD

discuss and provide advice on any other statistical developments closely linked to health-related issues (e.g. health items in LFS, SILC, business statistics, transport statistics)

Frequency of meetings:once a year

Participants: Number of participants: 50representatives of responsible administrations for the production of public health statistics in the Member States and representatives of government users – representatives from Commission services (SANCO, EMPL, ENV, RTD), WHO, OECD, UNECEType of experts: governmental

Type of activities: permanent, legislative drafting,Member State coordination, exchange of views, strategic decisions

Other related structures: Partnership on Health Statistics: established by the DSS in 2002 (see above) - successor of the

previous ‘Leadership group Health Statistics’ (LEG Health) established by the SPC in 1997 - in order to support the restructuring, development and implementation of EU health statistics taking into account the relation with other social statistics in particular and other related economic statistics in general. Each of the Partnership leaders takes responsibility for a specific topic/CG and TG (see below).

Core groups (CG) – including 5 Member States and 1 AC/CC - :The Partnership activities are shared in three domains; for each of them a Core group deal with the general coordination of the activities, prepare and lead the discussions to take place in the Technical groups (see below), monitor the needs for new or revised health statistics and address (but not carry out) further development work (each of them meeting three times a year, including TELE meetings):- Core group on Causes of Death statistics- Core group on Health and Health-related Survey data- Core group on Health Care data WG “Technical groups” – including all Member States, AC/CC and EFTA countries - :

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For each of the three domains above a Technical group is in charge of the implementation and utilisation of common methods for collection and delivery of health statistics in the Member States-AC/CC for the EU level

(each of them meeting once a year)- Technical group on Causes of Death statistics- Technical group on Health and Health-related Survey data- Technical group on Health Care data

Ad-hoc Task Forces, created on a case by case basis to take forward short term specific development work The execution of the work programme through the Core groups, Technical groups and Task

Forces is steered via a Partnership on Health Statistics management group. Working groups, networks and Committee established for the Programme of Community action in the

field of Public Health 2003-2008 (EP and Council Decision 1786/2002/EC of 23.09.2002 convened under the responsibility of DG SANCO.

Committees established for other Community programmes with components related to health, e.g. the High Level group on Disability convened under the responsibility of DG EMPL, the Committee of Senior Officials on Public Health: (advising the EC on recognition of diplomas on health professions), convened under the responsibility of DG MARKT.



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Unit: F5

Title: WG Technical group on causes of death



Origin: Decision on 22-23/04/2002 of the DSS to establish, in the framework of the new Partnership on Health

Statistics, three Technical groups working on the basis of the work programme defined by the Public Health working group

At its meeting of 18-19 September 2006, the DSS agreed that the organisation of the Technical Group meetings would not anymore be part of the Partnership Health (2007 grant agreement), but would be organised directly by Eurostat

Legal basis:

Mandate:to discuss and take decisions on the implementation and utilisation of common methods for collection and delivery of statistics on causes of deaths, in the Member States-AC/CC for the EU level


Participants: govern representatives from Member States, Acceding, Candidate and EFTA countriesrepresentatives from Commission services (SANCO), WHO, OECD

Other related structures:Partnership on Health statistics management group

Reporting authority:Working Group Public health statistics


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Unit: F5

Title: WG Technical group on health care






Legal basis:

Mandate:to discuss and take decisions on the implementation and utilisation of common methods for collection and delivery of statistics on health care resources, outcomes and financing, in the Member States-AC/CC for the EU level






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Unit: ESTAT/F/5 together with SANCO/C/2 F5

Title: TF EHSS Steering Committee

EHSS: European Health Survey System, as endorsed by the DSS at its meeting of September 2002

SG Code (Register of experts groups) -


Origin: Request to set up such a group came from two Commission services, resp ESTAT/F/5 and SANCO/C/2, dealing respectively with 'health statistics' and with 'health information'

Legal basis:

Mandate:To make recommendations on coordination of EHSS activities; in particular these recommendations concern the development and implementation of the EHSS instruments and tools. The EHSS steering committee should look at:- ways to avoid any duplications and unnecessary overlaps between ESTAT and SANCO health surveys/survey modules developments;- ensuring that all actors in the development of the EHSS understand the same concepts and contents for a same element/part of the EHSS;- agreeing on names and acronyms to be used by both DGs in the area of EHSS;- use of common guidelines prepared for the development, adoption and implementation of survey modules;- time coordination and stability of the EHIS and specific Health survey modules (ESHIS):- use of EHSS instruments for collecting data for European Community Health Indicators (ECHI);- common ESTAT-SANCO strategic issues for the EHSS implementation;- general comparability issues in health surveys;- recommendations on coordination with other European surveys, in particular those of the ESS;- possible inclusion of other fields, such as on 'integration of people with disabilities'.

Frequency of meetings:1 or 2 meetings per year, to be organised either by DG SANCO or by DG ESTAT

Participants: Number of participants: 15Officials from the respective Commission services (SANCO/C/2 and ESTAT/F/5): chair

Persons responsible within ESTAT or SANCO projects or groups working on elements within the context of the development of the EHSS, such as on the European Health Interview Survey (EHIS), on the European Health Examination Survey (EHES) or on the inventory of recommended instruments, with a maximum of 12 participants


Type of activities:mainly internal coordination between different Commission programmes, exchange of views

Other related structures:Technical group on Health and health-related survey data

Reporting authority:Directly to the two responsible Commission services (SANCO/C/2 and ESTAT/F/5), who will ensure any relevant reporting to the DSS and the Network of Competent Authorities (NCA) on Health Information.


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Unit: F5

Title: WG Technical group on health interview survey






Legal basis:

Mandate:to discuss and take decisions on the implementation and utilisation of common methods for collection and delivery of statistics on health-related surveys, disability and morbidity, in the Member States-AC/CC for the EU level






Unit: F5

Title: WG Health and safety at work statistics



Origin: merge of the previous working group " European Statistics on Accidents at work (ESAW)", created in 1990 and " European occupational diseases statistics (EODS)", created in 1992

Legal basis:

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request of DG EMPL on the basis of: Its Communication COM(2002) 118 final (text) and the Council Resolution 2002/C 161/01 (text) on a

new Community strategy on health and safety at work (2002-2006) that respectively indicates that the Commission will step up harmonisation work on European statistics and on the construction of progress-chasing indicators and calls on the Commission and the Member States to step up work in hand on harmonisation of statistics on accidents at work and occupational illnesses

Council Resolution 95/C 168/01 (text) that called upon the Commission to carry out work on harmonising statistics on accidents at work and occupational diseases

Directive of the Council 89/391/EEC (text) about introduction of measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health of the workers at work (including the obligation for employers to keep a list of occupational accidents resulting in a worker being unfit for work for more than three days)

Commission Recommendation 90/326/EEC (adoption of a European schedule of occupational diseases) (text)

Mandate: adopt goals, programmes, methodologies, and implementation and data collection methods and

schedules for the different phases of the development of the ESAW (including the sub-project on Commuting accidents) and EODS projects,

discuss, provide advice and agree on any other statistical development in the field of Safety at work (e.g., ad hoc module on “accidents at work and occupational diseases” in the 1999 Community LFS, developments on the socio-economic costs of accidents at work, etc.),

discuss and provide advice on the evaluation and analysis of the data collected in the framework of ESAW (including Commuting accidents), EODS and other statistical tools in the field of Safety at work.

Frequency of meetings:in general once a year

Participants: Number of participants: 50Representatives of Labour or Social Affairs ministries of national Health and Safety at Work social securityboards or prevention Institutions of the Member States, EEA/EFTA, Acceding and Candidate countries

Type of experts: governmental experts

Type of activities: permanent, legislative drafting,Member State coordination, exchange of views, strategic decisions

Other related structures:WG “Technical groups” – including all Member States, AC/CC and EFTA countries - (meeting once a year each) : Technical group on Accidents at work statisticsTechnical group on Occupational diseases statistics



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Unit: F5

Title: WG Technical group on accidents at work

SG Code (Register of experts groups) (E01735)E01804 – DG EMPL


Origin: development of the European Statistics on Accidents at work (ESAW)

Legal basis:request of DG EMPL on the basis of: Its Communication COM(2002) 118 final (text) and the Council Resolution 2002/C 161/01 (text) on a


Council Resolution 95/C 168/01 (text) that called upon the Commission to carry out work on harmonising statistics on accidents at work and occupational diseasesDirective of the Council 89/391/EEC (text) about introduction of measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health of the workers at work (including the obligation for employers to keep a list of occupational accidents resulting in a worker being unfit for work for more than three days)

Mandate: discuss goals and technical issues and prepare proposals for agreement of the WG Health and safety

at work statistics on programmes, methodologies, implementation and data collection for the different phases of the development of the ESAW project (including the sub-project on Commuting accidents),

discuss and provide advice and proposals for agreement of the WG Health and safety at work statistics on any other statistical development in the field of Safety at work (e.g., ad hoc module on “accidents at work and occupational diseases” in the 1999 Community LFS, developments on the socio-economic costs of accidents at work, etc.),

discuss technical issues and provide technical advice on the evaluation and analysis of the data collected in the framework of ESAW (including Commuting accidents) and other statistical tools in the field of Safety at work.


Participants: Number of participants: 50Representatives of Labour or Social Affairs ministries of national Health and Safety at Work social securityboards or prevention Institutions of the Member States, EEA/EFTA, Acceding and Candidate countriesType of experts: governmental experts

Type of activities: permanent, legislative drafting, Member State coordination, exchange of views

Reporting authority:Working Group Health and safety at work statistics


Unit: F5

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Title: WG Technical group on occupational diseases

SG Code (Register of experts groups) (E01735)E01804 – DG EMPL


Origin: development of the European occupational diseases statistics (EODS)

Legal basis:request of DG EMPL on the basis of: Its Communication COM(2002) 118 final (text) and the Council Resolution 2002/C 161/01 (text) on a


Council Resolution 95/C 168/01 (text) that called upon the Commission to carry out work on harmonising statistics on accidents at work and occupational diseasesCommission Recommendation 90/326/EEC (adoption of a European schedule of occupational diseases) (text)

Mandate: discuss goals and technical issues and prepare proposals for agreement of the WG Health and safety

at work statistics on programmes, methodologies, implementation and data collection for the different phases of the development of the EODS project,

discuss and provide advice and proposals for agreement of the WG Health and safety at work statistics on any other statistical development in the field of Safety at work (e.g., ad hoc module on “accidents at work and occupational diseases” in the 1999 Community LFS),

discuss technical issues and provide technical advice on the evaluation and analysis of the data collected in the framework of EODS and other statistical tools in the field of Safety at work.


Participants: Number of participants: 50Representatives of Labour or Social Affairs ministries of national Health and Safety at Work social security boards or prevention Institutions of the Member States, EEA/EFTA, Acceding and Candidate countriesType of experts: governmental experts



Reporting authority:Working Group Health and safety at work statistics


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Unit: F5

Title: WP Crime and criminal justice



Origin: Request to set up such a working group made by the Directors of social statistics, 2006

Legal basis: There is no Community Regulation governing the collection of statistics in this area (this may be developed later)

Work on this topic is governed by a Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council and the European Economic and Social Committee, ‘Developing a comprehensive and coherent EU strategy to measure crime and criminal justice : an EU Action Plan 2006-2010’

Mandate:To help ensure the effective implementation of the EU Action Plan on developing a comprehensive and coherent strategy to measure crime and criminal justice (‘the Action Plan’) by co-ordinating the contribution of the European Statistical System to the various activities included in the Action PlanTo liaise with the expert group on the policy needs for data on crime and criminal justice, and specifically to co-ordinate the implementation by the European Statistical System of the common indicators and tools developed in fulfilment of the tasks of that expert group, as provided for under the Action PlanTo report to the Directors of Social Statistics on the implemention of the Action Plan, including evaluating the progress made and making recommendations for future actionsTo identify specific tasks relevant to the Action Plan for delegation to task forces, and to propose the mandates and members of such task forcesTo serve as a forum of information concerning relevant research and development activities or results in the area of crime and criminal justice statistics to be taken into account in the implementation of the Action Plan

Frequency of meetings:About once a year

Participants: Number of participants: 40 Representatives of Member States/EFTA/Acceding, Candidate countries working on statistics in these

areas, other DGs (especially DG JLS), observers from international organisations (UNODC, UNECE, European Sourcebook, etc.)


Type of activities: permanent, legislative drafting, strategic decisions,Member State coordination, exchange of views

Other related structures:The activities of this group are co-ordinated with those of the DG JLS expert group established in 2006 under the Commission Decision setting up a group of experts on the policy needs for data on crime and criminal justice

Reporting authority:Sector group "European directors of social Statistics"

Additional information:The existing task force on Crime, victimisation and criminal justice continues to function and reports to this working group.

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Unit: F5

Title: TF Crime, victimisation and criminal justice



Origin: Request to set up such a task force made by the Directors of social statistics, September 2004

Legal basis: No direct legal basis, but Art; 30 2 d of the Treaty of the EU requires the establishment of a "research, documentation and statistical network on cross/border crime" within five years of the entry into forcer of the Treaty

Mandate:To develop comparable statistics at European level in the fields of crime, victimisation and criminal justice

Frequency of meetings:Once in 2005, but frequency for following years still to be decided

Participants: Number of participants: 17 Representatives of Member States working on statistics in these areas Representatives of UNODC, Source Book, Commission servicesType of experts: governmental

Type of activities:expert advice, preparation of methodology

Other related structures:DG JAI expert committee

Reporting authority:Sector group "European directors of social Statistics"


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Unit: F6

Title: Statistics on the Information society WG

Date of creation: Dec. 1996

Origin:

Before the establishment of this WG, questions concerning statistics on the information society emanated from the already existing working groups on Communications (COINS) and Audio-Visual (AUVIS). In December 1996 Eurostat, in order to emphasise the importance and horizontal character of information society statistics by its own, convened the first meeting of this Working Group (WG) following the G7 meeting on the information society and an ensuing workshop on the economies of the Information society co-arranged by DG INFSO and OECD in September 1996. In November 1997 a task force was nominated to elaborate the details of the scope and the content of Community statistics for the information society. In February 1998 that task force agreed on a WG to meet on a regular basis.

Mandate:

- To discuss strategies and measures to develop statistics on the information society in line with policy requirements (such as structural indicators and the eEurope Action Plan) and technological change. These concern all aspects of the information society including the ICT sector, telecommunications, ICT usage and impact of ICT

- To discuss and endorse the annual implementing measures foreseen in article 8 of Regulation 808/2004 together with the methodological manual foreseen in article 5 of Regulation 808/2004 and the quality reports foreseen in article 7 of Regulation 808/2004.

- To discuss and endorse the interchange standard for the transmission of data and metadata according to Article 6 of Regulation 808/2004

- To monitor the launch, implementation and evaluation of pilot studies according to section f) of annex 1 and annex 2 of Regulation 808/2004

- To supervise the work of specific Task Forces


Bi-annual

Participants:

Representatives of the NSIs of all Member States, EFTA, Candidate Countries and Russia

Commision services, in particular DG INFSO and DG ENTR

International organisations: OECD, ITU


OECD working party on Indicators on the Information Society (WPIIS)



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Information Society Statistics

TEMPORARY WORKING GROUPS AND TASK FORCES

Task Force: Enterprises and the information society

Mandate: - to develop the annual implementing measures for Regulation 808/2004- to update the methodological manual in line with the annual implementing measures- to develop new indicators in line with policy requirements and technological change


Duration: 5 years (in line with the lifespan of Regulation 808/2004)

Participants: Member States interested in contributing to the specific survey

Task Force: Individuals, households and the information society

Mandate: - to develop the annual implementing measures for Regulation 808/2004- to update the methodological manual in line with the annual implementing measures- to develop new indicators in line with policy requirements and technological change


Duration: 5 years (in line with the lifespan of Regulation 808/2004)

Participants: Member States interested in contributing to the specific survey

Task Force: ICT expenditure and investment

Mandate: - to develop and test the methodology for the measurement of ICT expenditure and investment

Frequency: once per year

Duration: 1-2 years (until mandate has been fulfilled)

Participants: Participants in the pilot survey

Temporary Working Group ICT sector statistics

Mandate: - to develop a coherent framework for statistics on the products and services of the ICT sector (including e-communications)



Participants: Representatives of the NSIs of all Member States, EFTA and Candidate Countries

Commision services, in particular DG INFSO and DG ENTR

International organisations: OECD, ITU

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Task Force ICT sector statistics

Mandate: - to prepare the work of the respective temporary Working Group



Participants: Member States interested in participating

Task Force Telecommunication statistics (part of ICT sector statistics)

Mandate: to prepare the annual telecomm data collection and to prepare conceptual questions for treatment at the temporary Working Group on ICT Sector statistics


Duration: 2-3 years (until mandate of the temporary Working Group on the ICT Sector has been fulfilled)

Participants: Member States interested in participating; telecomm and statistical experts

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Unit: F6

Title: Tourism Statistics WG

Date of creation: 1993 (informally); 23/11/1995 (officially)

Origin:

The constitution of the group was decided during the discussion of the draft of the Council Directive 95/57/EC on the collection of statistical information in the field of tourism

Legal basis:

Council Directive 95/57/EC

Mandate:

- To discuss strategies and mesasures to develop tourism statistics in line with policy requirements. These concern all aspects of tourism statistics including supply of tourism accommodation, demand for tourism services, employment in the tourism industry and economic impact of tourism

- To prepare the revision of Council Directive 95/57

- To monitor the implementation of the legal framework for tourism statistics

- To discuss and prepare the EU position towards initiatives on UN level

- To supervise the work of specific task forces

- To exchange information and know-how in the area of tourism and to promote best practices


Annual

Participants:

Representatives of the NSIs or other national authorities responsible for tourism statistics of all Member States, EFTA and Candidate Countries

Commision services, in particular DG ENTR

International organisations: OECD, WTO (World Tourism Organisation)


OECD working party on tourism statistics

WTO Committee on Statistics and Macroeconomic Analysis of Tourism



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Tourism statistics: TASK FORCE

Task Force: Revision of the legal basis for tourism statistics

Mandate: - to revise the legal basis for tourism statistics- to develop the methodology for new areas of statistics to be included in the legal basis



Participants: 7 MS plus DG ENTR

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List of meetings planned for 2007

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Working Groups and Task Forces mandatesDirectorate FDir Unit Theme Title of meeting To report to Type Start day End day

F F-0 Directors of Social Statistics SPC SG 20.9.07 21.9.07

F F-0 Strategic Development Group DSS TF 2.2.07 2.2.07

F F-0 Strategic Development Group DSS TF June June

F F-3 European HH Survey DSS TF 24.04.07 24.04.07



F F1 31 Life Expectancy by SES Demography & Census TF March

F F1 31 Life Expectancy by SES Demography & Census TF October

F F1 31 Census Legislation Demography & Census TF January F F1 31 Census Legislation Demography & Census TF April F F1 31 Census Legislation Demography & Census TF June F F1 31 Census Legislation Demography & Census TF November

F F1 31 Implementation of Migration Legislation Migration & Asylum TF March

F F1 31 Implementation of Migration Legislation Migration & Asylum TF April

F F1 31 Implementation of Migration Legislation Migration & Asylum TF June

F F1 31 Implementation of Migration Legislation Migration & Asylum TF October

F F1 31 Implementation of Migration Legislation Migration & Asylum TF November

F F-1 31 Population Projections DSS WG 29.11.07 30.11.07F F-1 31 Methodology Pop. Projections Population Projections TF February F F-1 31 Methodology Pop. Projections Population Projections TF April F F-1 31 Methodology Pop. Projections Population Projections TF June F F-1 31 Methodology Pop. Projections Population Projections TF September F F-1 31 Methodology Pop. Projections Population Projections TF October F F1 31 Scientific Pannel on Projections Population Projections TF April F F-2 32 Labour Market DSS WG 19.3.07 20.3.07F F-2 32 Labour Market DSS WG 13.9.07 14.9.07F F-2 32 LFS preparation ad hoc module 2010 Labour market TF June/July

F F-2 32 Job Vacancy Statistics Labour market TF February F F-2 32 Job Vacancy Statistics Labour market TF July F F-2 32 Esec Classification Labour market TF June

F F-2 32 Gender Pay Gap Labour market TF February

F F-2 32 Gender Pay Gap Labour market TF June

F F-2 32 Gender Pay Gap Labour market TF October/NovemberF F-2 32 LFS evaluation ad hoc module 2006 Labour market TF December F F-2 32 Labour Market Policy database Labour market TF June

F F-2 32 Workshop on the LCI implementation of NACE rev. Labour market WG 5.2.07 39,119

F F-2 32 Time use survey DSS WG 20.6.07 21.6.07

F F-2 32 Time Use Survey Time use surveys TF April F F-3 37 Social Protection (ESSPROS) DSS WG 27.3.07 28.3.07

F F-3 37 ESSPROS methodology Social protection TF June F F-3 37 ESSPROS net benefits Social protection TF November F F-3 36 Conditions de vie DSS WG 21.5.07 23.5.07F F-3 36 EU-SILC methodology Living conditions TF January

F F-3 36 EU-SILC methodology Living conditions TF March

F F-3 36 EU-SILC methodology Living conditions TF September

F F-3 36 EU-SILC methodology Living conditions TF December

F F-3 36 Material deprivation/module Living conditions TF April

F F-3 36 Material deprivation/module Living conditions TF June

F F-3 36 Material deprivation/module Living conditions TF July F F-4 73 STI statistics DSS WG 5.11.07 6.11.07

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F F-4 73 CIS 2006 Science, technology and innovation TF 12.2.07 13.2.07

F F-4 73 CIS 2006 Science, technology and innovation TF 26.4.07 27.4.07

F F-4 73 STI statistics (EP/Council report, NABS and classification issues)

Science, technology and innovation TF 27.6.07 28.6.07

F F-4 73 STI statistics (EP/Council report, NABS and classification issues)

Science, technology and innovation TF 13.9.07 14.9.07

F F-4 33 Education and Training Statistics DSS WG 27.2.07 28.2.07F F-4 33 Education and Training Statistics DSS WG 24.9.07 25.9.07 F F-5 66 Food safety statistics DSS WG 10.12.07 11.12.07

F F-5 66 Control and monitoring activities statistics Food Safety WG 1.10.07 2.10.07

F F-5 66 Human health and food safety Food safety TF 29.03.07 29.03.07

F F-5 66 Control and monitoring activities Food safety TF 15.05.07 15.05.07

F F-5 66 Food consumption Food safety TF 16.06.07 16.06.07

F F-5 35 Public health DSS WG 27.11.07 28.11.07

F F-5 35 Health interview survey statistics Public health WG 18.6.07 19.6.07

F F-5 35 Health care statistics Public health WG 18.9.07 19.9.07

F F-5 35 Causes of deaths statistics Public health WG 11.10.07 12.10.07

F F-5 35 EHSS Steering Committee Public health TF 2 days

F F-5 35 Health and safety at work statistics DSS WG 18.10.07 19.10.07

F F-5 35 Technical Group on Accidents at work statistics

Health and safety at work statistics WG 23.4.07 23.4.07

F F-5 35 Technical Group on Occupational diseases statistics

Health and safety at work statistics WG 24.4.07 24.4.07

F F-5 38 Crime and criminal justice statistics DSS WG 1.3.07 2.3.07

F F-5 38 Crime and criminal justice DSS WG 28.6.07 29.6.07

F F-5 38 Statistics on crime, victimisation and criminal justice

Crime, victimisation and criminal justice TF 4.10.07 5.10.07

F F-6 49 Information society statistics DSS & BSDG WG 13.3.07 14.3.07

F F-6 49 Information society statistics DSS & BSDG WG 8.10.07 10.10.07

F F-6 49 Telecomm Information society statistics TF 23.04.07 24.04.07

F F-6 49 Information society statistics/Household

Information society statistics TF 24.04.07 25.04.07

F F-6 49 Information society statistics/Financial Sector


F F-6 49 Information society statistics/ICT Investment


F F-6 49 Information society statistics/eCommerce

Information society statistics TF June June

F F-6 49 Information society statistics/ICT sector

Information society statistics WG 18.9.07 19.9.07

F F-6 49 Information society statistics/Household


F F-6 49 Information society statistics/eCommerce


F F-6 49 Information society statistics/ICT sector


F F-6 50 Tourism statistics BSDG WG 11.6.07 12.6.07

F F-6 50 Tourism statistics Tourism statistics TF Mars ou Avril

Mars ou Avril

F F-6 50 Tourism statistics Tourism statistics TF October October

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Evaluation of the Labour Market Statistics Working Group (LAMAS

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LAMAS Evaluation

1. IntroductionThe idea of creating the Labour Market Statistics (LAMAS) working group was born in 2003. It came after a period of important economic changes (EMU, introduction of the Euro) which were not accompanied by related social measures and where social policy moved more and more to the centre of political interest, inevitably leading to increasing requests for social statistics. At the same time, EU was going to be expanded to 25 Member States. EFTA countries within the European Economic Area (EEA) where also concerned.

In order to cope with the new challenges, the approach has been continuously adapted leading to more and more Working Groups, Task Forces and other groups with more and more participants from the Member States, the Candidate Countries and international organisations, having more and more meetings (in several languages) to deal with the growing work load.

Nevertheless, to discuss technical developments with such an important number of counterparts was becoming extremely difficult and in fact this was the main reason for setting a working schema with the Member States taking into account this new organisation.

This system was coming to its limits and fairly radical changes were unavoidable. Therefore, on the 49th meeting of the Statistical Programme Committee (May 2003), a proposal of integrated system of bodies and their working modes in European Social Statistics was adopted.

The proposed integrated system consists of the following main elements:

a) The system is hierarchical with the Directors of Social Statistics (DSS) on top. b) The DSS is supported by the Strategic Development Group. c) All existing Working Groups are replaced by a limited number of Domain Specific Groups. d) All methodological/technical aspects are dealt with by Task Forces. They are created by the

DSS on request of the Domain Specific Groups or at the DSS's own initiative. Task Forces must have concrete Terms of References and exist only for a very limited period. They report back to and are evaluated once a year by the group, which created them.

Five Domain Specific Groups were proposed on the following areas: - Labour Market covering employment, unemployment, wages etc. (LAMAS)- Education and culture- Demography including migration- Living Conditions covering income, poverty, social exclusion etc.- Health and Social Protection including (public) health and safety at work

For the implementation of this strategy, the LAMAS group was chosen as a pilot and met for the first time in April 2005. It covers statistical issues on the Labour Market, such as Labour Force Survey (LFS), Earnings and Labour cost statistics, Job vacancy statistics, Harmonised unemployment, Labour Market Policy (LMP) database and Strikes. It replaced 3 previously existing Working groups (Employment statistics, earning and labour cost statistics and LMP). The group is supported with technical Task forces in these domains.

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After 2 years of functioning and 4 meetings, this paper provides an evaluation of the implementation of the LAMAS group and its Task forces, its main changes over time, the advantages and disadvantages of this approach and some recommendations for the future.

2. Functioning

The LAMAS working group has met now four times in April 2005, October 2005, March 2006 and September 2006.

The participants are representatives of the NSIs or other national authorities responsible for Labour market statistics of EU Member States, Candidate, CARDS and EFTA countries, Commission services, in particular DG EMPL, the European Central Bank and other international organisations like OECD, ILO and UNECE.

A minority of Member States sends a single delegate. The most common situation is to send 2 delegates (one responsible for LFS and one for the earnings and labour cost statistics, the 2 main issues discussed in these meetings). Some countries send 3 or more delegates to the LAMAS meetings.

The mandate of the LAMAS group is:- To discuss strategies and measures to develop labour market statistics in line with policy requirements. These concern all aspects of labour market covered by the domain: employment, unemployment, labour costs and earnings, job vacancies, labour market policies and strikes.- To initiate Community legislative acts for labour market statistics- To monitor the implementation of the legal framework of labour market statistics- To supervise and validate the work of specific task forces- To examine and discuss the concepts, comparability, data collection and transmission of labour market statistics, to exchange information and know-how in the area of labour market statistics and to promote best practices.

The work of the LAMAS was supported during these last 2 years by the following Task Forces:

- Task force evaluating the quality of the 2004 LFS ad hoc module

- Task force studying the feasibility of an ad hoc module on “Labour market situation of migrants and their immediate descendants”.

- Task force Meeting on LFS 2008 ad hoc module on “Labour market situation of migrants and their immediate descendants”.

- Task force revising the LFS explanatory notes - Task force to set up a legal base for Job vacancy statistics

- Task force on Labour Market Policy Statistics methodology

- Task force on Labour cost index

- Task force on the evaluation of the 2005 LFS ad hoc module

- Task force on the implementation of the Labour cost Survey 2004

The table in annex 1 shows the Member States participating in each of these Task forces.

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Previously to the creation of the LAMAS group, in 2004, 3 working groups were running: The employment and unemployment statistics, earnings and Labour costs statistics and Labour Market policies (LMP). These working groups were meeting twice a year (the 2 first) and LMP once a year. In the same period 5 task forces were launched.

3. Taking on board Member of the LAMAS's suggestions

As for all meetings organised by Eurostat a satisfaction questionnaire has been distributed in each LAMAS meeting. The answers to this questionnaire have helped us to improve the structure and the content of this thematic working group.

The main comments and changes introduced over the last two years are described below.

3.1 Reduction of the duration of the meetingsThe first Lamas meetings lasted 3 days. This was considered by the delegates to be too long. In 2006 the meetings were reduced to two days.

This has implied a selection on the items of the agenda, an organization trying to optimize the time allocated to each item and a strict control of the timing during the meeting.

3.2 Thematic organisation of the agendaIn the beginning the expectation was that each country would send a single delegate. For this reason the agenda was not always organised in terms of subjects. In fact, as mentioned above, several countries send two to four participants depending to the subjects treated and these countries would prefer a thematic agenda where the experts could attend the meeting only for their subject of expertise.

Taking this into account the 2006 meetings have been already organised in order to cover on the first day all issues related to the Labour force Survey and Labour Market Policies database, and leave for the second day items related to enterprise surveys (Job vacancies, earnings and labour cost). This distribution allows, for Member States willing to do so, to send an expert for each day and limits the attendance to the meeting to one day per person.

3.3 Reduce the duration of presentationsIn the evaluation forms some presentations were considered too long.In the last LAMAS meeting, presentations were reduced to a maximum of 20 minutes per item of the agenda and always helped by a Power Point presentation.Extra attention was dedicated to the PP presentations in order to underline the main items for discussion and reduce superfluous information. Presentations are now made from the main table.In general, for points of decision the time allocated for discussion represented the triple of the time of the presentation. Nevertheless, for items for information, only time for request of clarifications was allocated. In the agenda items for decision and information are now clearly identified.For future meetings, the agenda will also include the name of the "speaker" for each item presented.

3.4 Use "views" as a tool for previous consultation on points for decisionFor decision points, it was suggested a previous consultation of the Member States by the use of the form of exchanging views (as in DSS and SPC meetings).

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This suggestion was implemented in the 2006 meetings for items related to legislation and the results were quite positive.To have beforehand the opinions of the Member States allows Eurostat to adapt the proposals taking these opinions into account already in the presentation and reduce the time needed for discussion. They are also disseminated during the meeting which allows each participant to be informed on other countries opinions.

3.5 Larger delay between LAMAS and DSS meetingThe DSS meeting is organized in general in September like the second LAMAS meeting of the year. Therefore it has happened that the two meetings have been organized in the same week or very closely or even that the DSS meeting takes place before the LAMAS. This is of course not convenient as the LAMAS should report directly back to the DSS and a minimum delay is necessary for consultation and agreement between the two bodies.

3.6 Seminars and workshops to enlarge technical discussionsTask forces have a mandate to discuss technical issues but the number of participants is restricted to 8 participants from the National statistical Offices to allow efficient discussions. The LAMAS group, as said before should limit as much as possible its mandate to strategic decisions. Therefore, a forum where experts from all Member States, candidate and EFTA countries could meet to discuss and exchange technical experiences was missing.For this reason the system LAMAS/Task forces has been completed with Seminars and workshops.During 2006, an LMP seminar was organized in Brussels and a workshop on LFS methodology in Heerlen.

4. Advantages and disadvantagesThe passage from a system of consultation and discussion with the Member States based on working groups to the LAMAS domain specific group has some pros and cons.

Advantages

1. The reduction on the administrative burden.2. Simplification: most of the methodological/technical aspects are discussed in the framework of the task forces. In this way, the LAMAS group can focus on more strategic issues 3. Costs were equally reduced for Eurostat as we passed from five working groups meetings per year to two LAMAS meetings. Nevertheless this reduction in costs has to be nuanced as at the same time the number of task force meetings has increased in parallel. The balance is however still positive.

Disadvantages

1. The main disadvantage of the system is that task forces cannot cover all the national technical specificities and some technical discussion is still needed in the LAMAS meetings. Since the number of experts participating is limited and despite of the restructuring of the agenda by themes we face situations where there is not a valid interlocutor for all the areas/surveys treated. This is particularly true for JVS and LMP topics.

2. Moreover the participation of the Member States in the task forces is quite imbalanced, some never had participated in any task force and some others are over represented (see table in annex)

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according to specific policies of the Member States in terms of involvement and participation on technical discussions.

3. Consistency between the different bodies (LAMAS, DSS and SPC) is not always perfect. For some crucial issues, contradictory opinions from the Member States were formulated in the different meetings. This is an issue for improvement of communication inside the Member States.

4. Due to the fact that several Member States send more than one delegate and the travel expenses are only reimbursed for one delegate per country, the costs for the National Statistical Offices have increased.

5. Recommendations - A more broad participation of all Member States in the Task forces (rotation scheme for the Member States participating could be discussed)- NSIs should insure a good communication and information of the hierarchies in order to avoid inconsistent positions in the LAMAS, DSS and SPC.- LAMAS meeting should take place at least 3 weeks before the DSS- LAMAS/ Task force meetings should be completed with Seminars and methodological workshops where all Member States, Candidate and EFTA Countries can participate.- Have a 3 year plan for the Task forces in order to have a better picture and distribution of Member States participating.

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Annex 1

Task forces working during 2005 and 2006 BE

CZ

DK

DE

EE

EI

EL

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FR

IT

CY

LV

LT

LU

HU

MT

NL

AT

PL

PT

SI

SK

FI

SE

UK

Task force evaluating the quality of the 2004 LFS ad hoc module

x x x x x

Task force studying the feasibility of an ad hoc module on “Labour market situation of migrants and their immediate descendants”.

x x x x x x x

Task force Meeting on LFS 2008 ad hoc module on “Labour market situation of migrants and their immediate descendants”.

x x x x x x

Task force revising the LFS explanatory notes

x x x x x x x

Task force to set up a legal base for Job vacancy statistics

x x x x x x x x

Task force on Labour Market Policy Statistics methodology

x x x x x x x x

Task force on Labour cost index

x x x x x x x x

Task force on the evaluation of the 2005 LFS ad hoc module

x x x x x x

Task force on the implementation of the Labour cost Survey 2004

x x x

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Task forces and workshops during 2004 BE

CZ

DK

DE

EE

EI

EL

ES

FR

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CY

LV

LT

LU

HU

MT

NL

AT

PL

PT

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SK

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UK

Workshop on Labour cost index

x x x x x x x x x x x x x x

Task force Meeting on LFS 2006 ad hoc module

x x x x x x x x X

Task force Revision of the LCS and SES variables and their definitions

x x x x x x x

Task force Wave approach x x x xTask force studying the feasibility of an ad hoc module on “Labour market situation of migrants and their immediate descendants”.

x x x x x x

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Proposal for rationalising WG and TF in unit F1 (Demography)

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Rationalisation of Working Groups and Task Forces in Unit F1

As of 2008-2009 we are thinking to merge the 3 Working Groups into one 'Demographic and Migration Statistics' (DEMIS?) which could meet twice a year and treat all relevant subjects, with particular focus each time. The experience from the Labour Market Statistics (LAMAS) Working Group suggests that such an approach is more efficient than the present situation.

The Task Forces have a very flexible structure and are limited in terms of number of participants and duration. Therefore, we intend to continue with this efficient functioning.

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