Eurostat´s mission is to provide high-quality statistics on the European Union. Quality in official statistics, focuses on all the important t areas, from the institutional environment in which statistical offices operate through the production of statistical processes to the outputs of the official statistics.

Official European statistics are guided by the principles, included in the European Statistics Code of Practice (pdf - 440 kB), by which Eurostat w and the statistical authorities of the EU-Member States have committed themselves to applying high quality statistics These principlescover, inter alia, to professional independence, confidentiality, credibility of outputs, their relevance, accuracy and timeliness, punctuality, coherence and comparability, accessibility and clarity.

Eurostat, the national statistical institutes and other national authorities, responsible for the development, production and dissemination of European statistics are committed to quality and as it is clearly stated in European Statistical System Quality Statement, which is set out in the preamble to the the European Statistics Code of Practice

More information on the implementation of the Code of Practice by the SO SR