While discussions continue in the Parliament to finalise the Data Act which deals with access to data held by enterprises and a public consultation has been opened to introduce this issue into Regulation 223 which provides a framework for European official statistics, a round table organised on this subject as part of the Conference of European Statistics Stakeholders in Rome brought together, under the chairmanship of Emmanuel Baldacci (Eurostat), Francesca Kay (Central Statistics Office of Ireland) and the European Commission, a round table on this subject organised as part of the Conference of European Statistics Stakeholders in Rome brought together, under the chairmanship of Emmanuel Baldacci (Eurostat), Francesca Kay (Central Statistics Office of Ireland) Wieteke Dupain (EUCLID network), Roxane Silberman (CASD) and Florent Diverchy (Produpress).
Among the issues discussed after Florent Diverchy’s presentation of the High Level Expert Group’s report to Eurostat on “Facilitating the Use of New Data Sources for Official Statistics” was the question of the conditions of access for official statistics to these data, which are currently very limited in Chapter 5 of the Data Act to very exceptional circumstances, and the question of negotiating multi-party contracts for official statistics access to private sources, including the possibility of access for research.
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