Eurostat

Eurostat (or ESTAT was created as the Statistical Office of the European Communities

Eurostat was established in 1953 to meet the requirements of the Coal and Steel Community. Over the years its task has broadened and when the European Community was founded in 1958 it became a Directorate-General (DG) of the European Commission.

Related articles

 * ESS
 * NSI

External website

 * ec.europa.eu/eurostat
 * MyIntracomm, My Cybernews, Eurostat Intranet

Related legislation

 * , Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics
 * , 2012/504/EU: Commission Decision of 17 September 2012 on Eurostat
 * , Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on European statistics and repealing Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1101/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the transmission of data subject to statistical confidentiality to the Statistical Office of the European Communities, Council Regulation (EC) No 322/97 on Community Statistics, and Council Decision 89/382/EEC, Euratom establishing a Committee on the Statistical Programmes of the European Communities (Text with relevance for the EEA and for Switzerland)
 * , Council Regulation (EC) No 479/2009 of 25 May 2009 on the application of the Protocol on the excessive deficit procedure(EDP) annexed to the Treaty establishing the European Community (Codified version)