Under the chairmanship of Mr Marek Rojíček, the President of the Czech Statistical Office, the sixth and last meeting of the Council Working Party on Statistics under the Czech Presidency took place on 9 December 2022.
The main topic on the agenda was the Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) No 691/2011 as regards introducing new environmental economic accounts modules. The Presidency presented the final revised consolidated compromise text of this proposal, which a majority of Member States accepted. Therefore, the Presidency intends to submit this file at the Coreper meeting on 20 December.
The Chair of the WP, Mr Rojíček, then informed the delegations about the publication of the SAIO file in the Official journal and the state of play of the ESA file that was approved by Coreper on 30 November. Additionally, the Chair advised the delegations about the legislative progress regarding the proposal for the Data Act and two other non-statistical files that might be interesting to follow, namely the Proposal for a Regulation on nature restoration and the Proposal for a Regulation on data collection and sharing relating to short-term accommodation rental services and amending Regulation (EU) 2018/1724.
The next meeting of the Council Working Party on Statistics will be conducted by the Swedish Presidency.