Programme of the Presidency Trio
(1 January 2022 – 30 June 2023)
The incoming Presidency Trio, bringing together France, Czech Republic and Sweden, will run from 1 January 2022 to 30 June 2023. France holds the Presidency in the first half of 2022, followed by Czech Republic (July-December 2022) and Sweden (January-June 2023). The Trio countries will work in close cooperation with European Statistical System members and with all our partners.
The Presidency Trio will follow up on the work of the preceding presidencies, with the overall objective to provide high quality and relevant European statistics in accordance with Regulation (EC) 223/2009 on European statistics and guided by the European Statistics Code of Practice. The Presidency Trio will aim at promoting the value of official statistics and continuing the modernization of the European Statistical System taking into account the challenges and innovations coming from the Covid-19 crisis.
The Trio Presidency will further aim at responding adequately to a broad range of users’ needs and taking full advantage of the opportunities offered by new data sources and technologies while ensuring secured, transparent and reliable data.
Recognizing the importance to ensure access to data, the Trio Presidencies will further aim that new European data regulations take into account the specific needs of official statistics.
Priorities of the Czech Presidency
(1 July – 31 December 2022)
The main priorities of the Czech Presidency are determined by the 18-month programme which has been jointly prepared by the Trio Presidencies of France, the Czech Republic and Sweden. The Czech Presidency will continue to work on the strengthening of European statistics and the European Statistical System to respond adequately to users’ needs and challenges which arise from recent developments. The Czech Presidency will contribute to the discussion about future statistics and the opportunities offered by new technologies and new methods of data processing.
A high-level meeting planned by the Czech Presidency will provide an opportunity for debate and the sharing of experiences on data processing and machine learning as well as the role of data scientists in official statistics. The event will be held in Prague on 26 and 27 September 2022.
The Czech Presidency will build on the progress made by previous Presidencies and attempt to complete the legislative dossiers that are already well advanced:
- Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on Statistics on Agricultural Input and Output repealing Regulations (EC) No 1165/2008, (EC) No 543/2009, (EC) No 1185/2009 and Council Directive 96/16/EC (SAIO)
- Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) 549/2013 on the European System of National and Regional Accounts (ESA 2010)
In addition, the Czech Presidency will try to achieve progress on the following newly indicated dossiers to be discussed at the Council Working Party on Statistics:
- Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and Council on European Statistics on Population (ESOP)
- Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and Council amending Regulation (EU) 691/2011 on European environmental economic accounts (EEEA)