Under the chairmanship of Mr Marek Rojíček, the President of the Czech Statistical Office, the second meeting of the Council Working Party on Statistics under the Czech Presidency took place on 9 September 2022.
The main topic of the meeting was the Proposal for a Regulation as regards introducing new environmental economic accounts modules. The European Commission presented their legislative proposal which was adopted on 11 July 2022. The proposal was then examined and discussed by the Member States.
Another topic discussed at the meeting was the Data Act. Mrs Veronika Chvála Vinklárková, the chair of the Working Party on Telecommunications and Information Society, informed the Member States about the current state of play of this legislative proposal.
The Chair of the WP, Mr Rojíček then advised the delegations about the legislative progress regarding the ESA 2010 Regulation and Proposal for a Regulation on Statistics on Agricultural Input and Output (SAIO).
The next meeting of the Council Working Party on Statistics is scheduled for Friday, 7 October 2022.