The Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat) in co-operation with national statistical institutions set up a network of national centres of European Statistics Data Support - ESDS to support users in retrieval of European statistical information and work with them. The Centre of European Statistics Data Support in the Slovak Republic is created within
the Dissemination and Communication Directorate of the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic.

Eurostat coordinates the network of national centres with the aim to promote and open up the statistical information offered on its websites. Users have the possibility to access to databases, including international trade in goods - detailed data (Comext), all electronic versions of the Eurostat´s publications, as well as metadata.

Eurostat offers statistical data and information structured into the following basic groups:

• General and regional statistics
• Economy and finance
• Population and living conditions
• Industry, trade and services
• Agriculture and fisheries
• International trade
• Transport
• Environment and energy
• Science, technology and digital society

Users can find news releases, statistics by theme, EU policy indicators as well as all publications including Statistics Explained on the Eurostat home page. There is available also complete database.