1. EFTA technical cooperation activities 2015 Andrea Scheller Head of the EFTA Statistical Office - Luxembourg andrea.scheller@ext.ec.europa.eu

2. Background I European Free Trade Association –Liechtenstein, Iceland, Norway & Switzerland Basis for technical cooperation –Administrative Arrangement between the European Commission and the EFTA Secretariat reg. technical cooperation in statistics 2014-2016

3. Background II Main partners –National Statistical Institutes (NSI) of the four EFTA States, Eurostat, UNECE, IMF Beneficiary countries

4. Background III Areas of cooperation –Promotion of the UN Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics and the European Statistics Code of Practice –Economic statistics (National accounts, government finance statistics, trade statistics, business statistics) –Areas, in which EFTA NSIs have particular expertise and know-how

5. Activities Current programmes –Global Assessments/reviews of National Statistical Systems and implementation of recommendations –Implementation of the 2008 System of National Accounts and related Economic Statistics (NA, GFS, Business statistics) –Migration statistics

6. Activities 2015 Western Balkans and Turkey –Joint EFTA/Eurostat Workshop on the European Statistics Code of Practice, 2-3 July in Albania –Training Course on Data Analysis and Data Modelling by Statistics Switzerland, 7-11 September in Neuchâtel

7. Activities 2015 Eastern European, Caucasian, Central Asian countries and Mongolia –Joint EFTA/UNECE Workshop on the implementation of the SNA2008 and linkages with BPM6 and GFSM2014, 6-8 May in Istanbul –Training Course by Statistics Norway on the System of environmental-economic accounting central framework (SEEA-CF), 20-22 October in Minsk –Participation in the Group of experts on business registers, 21-23 September in Luxembourg

8. Activities 2015 –Participation in second round of global assessments –Preparation of a Generic statistical law handbook –Support of National workshop in Georgia on the use of administrative data for measuring migration Eastern European and Caucasian countries –Joint EFTA/Eurostat Workshop on the European Statistics Code of Practice, 2-3 July in Albania –Support for sessions of the Eurostat Eastern Partnership Panel on Statistics –Study visits on implementation of quality recommendations between AM and NO

9. Activities 2015 Southern and Eastern Mediterranean countries –Training Course on Data analysis and data modelling by Statistics Switzerland, 7-11 September in Neuchâtel –Participation in the Group of experts on business registers, 21-23 September in Luxembourg

10. Activities 2015 General –Participation in International Conferences and Seminars in the Field of Statistics –Support for Refugee Statistics Seminar by Statistics Norway, UNHCR, Eurostat and partners, in Turkey (tbc) –60 th World Statistics Congress of the International Statistical Institute in Rio de Janeiro 26-31 July