The reference guide is designed to serve as a vade-mecum, explaining the background of European regional and urban statistics, including its regional classification NUTS. The structure of the data stored in the public database is comprehensively described.

This publication contains information on the national statistical systems of the 13 candidate countries covering legal setting and administrative capacity of official statistics, principal providers of statistical data, organisation of NSIs including the staff and financial resources, major...

This report has been requested by the European Commission from the OMAS Consortium (OMAS). It is based on a detailed analysis of (Monitoring and Assessment) documentation produced by OMAS from 1996 to 2001, in particular, summaries from the Country Assessment Reviews (CARs) in relation to the...

This report is one of a series of six Ad Hoc and Thematic Reports which the OMAS Consortium is preparing. Its objectives are, firstly, “to assist the Candidate Countries in meeting the short and medium term challenges for accession, through analysis of OMAS experience of Monitoring and...