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Priority setting, simplification and reduction of response burden in the ESS
Walter Radermacher, DG EurostatChief Statistician of the EU
Conference on Administrative Simplification in Official Statistics SIMPLY 2010Ghent, 2 December 2010
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Context
ESS
Budget cuts
Limited HR
Response burden
Legal obligations
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Our objective: high-quality statistical information
Response burden on citizens and enterprises (obstacle for economy)
Production costs of producers of statistics (limited resources for new, development work)
Constraints:
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Effectiveness approach (priority setting)
Efficiency approach (new production method of EU statistics)
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Principles
1. Strategy-driven
approach
2. Minimizing
unhappiness of users
4. Cooperation in the ESS
3. Good communication
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Elements
2. Sunset clauses
3. Annual review:
- Legal acts to be repealed- Gentlemen’s agreements to be
stopped
- Simplification
1. Joint ESS strategy/new production
method of EU statistics
Implementation
- As far as possible for 2011
- Fully for 2012 and later
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Win-win solution
1. Lighten burden on:
- NSIs and other producers AND respondents: citizens and enterprises
2. Have spare resources for development work and new user needs
3. Improve strategic planning process in the ESS
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Commission-wide initiatives
Shift from burden reduction to simplification of legal requirements
Relation between EU policy and statistics:
1) Free movement of goods - introduction of Intrastat
2) Simplification of accounting - statistical data needed instead
Some examples from the past:
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Forward-looking initiatives and trends
Growing understanding of linkage between various requirements, e.g:
Consistency between public accounting system and the ESA;
ERP systems
ICT developments (scanner data for
price statistics, etc.) Increasing use of existing data
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Thank you for your attention!
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