ESGAB annual report 2023 : fifteenth annual report by the European Statistical Governance Advisory Board to the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union on the implementation of the European Statistics Code of Practice by Eurostat and the European Statistical System as a whole

The 2023 Annual Report of the European Statistical Governance Advisory Board (ESGAB) assesses the implementation of the European Statistics Code of Practice (CoP) in the European Statistical System (ESS) as a whole. ESGAB's assessment is that the production of European statistics overall demonstrates a good level of implementation of the CoP. However, there are important areas where implementation of the CoP is not as strong as what it can and should be, and it ought to further improve. The evolving environment of the data ecosystem will increasingly present challenges to the implementation of the CoP in the future. In this context, ESGAB considers the implementation of the CoP in a dynamic and forward-looking way to render the ESS fit for the future. Taking all the above into account, ESGAB presents in this report 28 concrete recommendations for improving the implementation of the CoP in the ESS.