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TITLE OF PROJECT

"Improving Structural Capacity of the Serbian Statistical Office in view of approximating European Statistical System (ESS) requirements"; EuropeAid/126969/C/SER/YU

Country:

Serbia

Project Period:

12/2008-05/2011

Project Value:

€ 1.811.000

No of Staff Provided:

4 Key Experts

Origin of Funding:

IPA

Name of Client/ Beneficiary:

Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia (SORS)

Description of Project:

The overall objective of the Project is approximating the Serbian Statistical System to the European Statistical System's requirements.

This formulation of the overall objective defines clearly the general scope of the Project, namely to support the Serbian Authorities in their effort to modernise the national statistical system in line with international and European standards and best practices. The Project's purposes are:

  • Purpose 1: Completing the upgrading of SORS infrastructure in order to ensure further sustainable approach to EU acquis on statistics
  • Purpose 2: Ensure continuation with the 2002 CARDS project on national accounts and tackle areas identified as priority by the European Commission (e.g. agriculture statistics)
  • Purpose 3: Consolidate the internal activities that support statistical production and statistical dissemination

Services Provided:
  • Infrastructure for Producing National Accounts
  • Support for the conceptual harmonisation
  • Improvement of adherence to ESA 95 methodology & European practices to produce annual & quarterly national NAs
  • Introduction to the concepts & data needs for the calculation of Supply & Use tables, regional, agricultural & satellite accounts
  • Improvement of data sources
  • Improvement of the system of National Accounts
  • Preparation of an Agricultural Census
  • Training and study tours
  • Upgrading the ICT System
  • Support for the improvement of e-business services
  • Development of electronic data collection system via Internet.
  • Design and development of an Intranet system at SORS
  • Training of IT personnel on security of wireless data transfer
  • PR, dissemination and communication
  • Development of Statistical Metadata System
  • Training to SORS personnel on SMS framework
  • Elaboration of policies, guidelines and work plans for standardising the production and dissemination of statistics.

Name of Partners:
  • Intrasoft International SA (BE);
  • ATKOSOFT SA (GR);
  • National Statistical Institute of Romania (RO);
  • ESYE - National Statistical Service of Greece (GR)