Draft Agenda
of the 93rd DGINS Conference
20–21 September 2007, Budapest

Under the patronage of Mr Péter Kiss,
Minister of Prime Minister’s Office of the Republic of Hungary

Thursday 20 September 2007

9:00 Opening of the Conference
by Mr György Gilyán, Senior State Secretary of the Hungarian Prime Minister’s Office and Mr Péter Pukli, President, Hungarian CSO
9:20 Key-note speech
1 – Globalisation and economic statistics from a multifunctional user’s perspective by Mr Gábor Oblath, Member of the Monetary Board of the National Bank of Hungary
9:50 Globalisation, a challenge for statistics
2 – by Ms Heli Jeskanen-Sundström and Ms Marie Bohatá co-chairs of TF2 “Statistical Challenges”
10:20 Introduction to the parallel sessions
3 – by Mr Stephen Kaiser, Director of Resources, Eurostat
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Work in parallel sessions

Each paper will be presented by the discussant according to the CES scheme
Session I: Measuring economic globalisation

Chair: Ms Karen Dunnell, National Statistician, ONS, UK
Discussant: Mr Hallgrimur Snorrason, Director, Statistics Iceland

I/1 – Measurement of e-commerce – Ms Nina Djahangiri and Mr Peter Hackl, Director General, Statistics Austria
I/2 – Integration of micro data from business surveys and the social statistics database – Mr Gosse van der Veen, Director General, Statistics Netherlands
I/3 – Developing the e-commerce concept – Mr Martin Lundo and Mr Jens Thomasen, Services Sector, Statistics Denmark
I/4 – Off-shoring and job losses in French industry – Mr Patrick Aubert, Mr Roland Rathelot and Mr Patrick Sillard, INSEE France
I/5 – The consistency of data for multinational enterprises – Mr Bill Keating, Assistant Director General, CSO Ireland
Session II: Measuring the social dimension of globalisation

Chair: Ms Heli Jeskanen-Sundström, Director General, Statistics Finland
Discussant: Mr Priit Potisepp, Director General, Statistics Estonia

II/1 – Migration flows and globalisation – Mr Algirdas Šemeta, Director General, Statistics Lithuania
II/2 – International migration of population in enlarged Europe. Methodological aspects and quality of statistics on migration – Report prepared by statisticians of the Social Statistics Division of the Central Statistical Office (GUS) in Poland – under the supervision of Janusz Witkowski
II/3 – Migration flows and globalisation: a critical challenge for Spanish and European statistical production – Ms Carmen Alcaide, President, INE Spain
II/4 – The impact of globalisation on employment – Mr Michel A. Di Pietro, Ms Esther Girsberger and Mr Alain Vuille, Swiss Federal Statistical Office
II/5 – Migration statistics and globalisation: challenges for the European Statistical System – Mr Michail Skaliotis, Head of Unit Demographic and Migration Statistics and Mr David Thorogood, Eurostat
12:30 Lunch break
14:00 Continuation of the work in the parallel sessions
Session I: Measuring economic globalisation

Chair: Ms Carmen Alcaide, President, INE Spain
Discussant: Mr Jan Plovsing, Director General, Statistics Denmark

I/6 – Globalisation – its impact on statistical measurements – Mr Jan Fischer, President, Czech Statistical Office
I/7 – Challenges for National Accounts and Balance of Payment Statistics: Goods sent abroad for processing – Mr Tore Halvorsen and Mr Øystein Olsen, Director General, Statistics Norway
I/8 – New challenges in the measurement of competitiveness in the economic globalization – Mr Luigi Biggeri, President, ISTAT Italy
I/9 – Measuring Swedish Offshoring – Mr Kjell Jansson, Director General, Statistics Sweden
I/10 – ESS response to globalisation – are we doing enough in business and economic statistics? – Mr Ludger Odenthal and Mr Jussi Ala-Kihniä, Eurostat
Session III: Measuring the environmental dimension of globalisation

Chair: Mr Walter Radermacher, President, DESTATIS Germany
Discussant: Mr Pieter Everaers, Director of Agriculture and Environment Statistics, Eurostat

III/1 – Sustainability challenge: Global goods and values versus local priorities and practices. Environmental aspects of globalization – Kaia Oras, Head of Environment and Sustainable Development Statistics Service, Statistics Estonia
III/2 – Environmental pressures from German imports and exports. Results of Environmental-Economic Accounting on embodied energy, carbon dioxide and transport of goods – Mr Karl Schoer, Ms Sarka Buyny, Ms Christine Flachmann, Mr Steffen Klink, Mr Helmut Mayer, Environmental-Economic Accounting, Destatis, Germany
III/3 – Globalisation and environment: targets and tools for measuring progress – Dr Tibor Faragó, Director General, Ministry of Environment and Water, Hungary and Dr Vilma Éri, Director, Center of Environmental Studies, Hungary
III/4 – Globalisation and environment statistics: developments in Eurostat statistics – Document prepared by Eurostat Directorate E
III/5 – The challenges of globalisation from an environmental accounting perspective – Mr Gosse van der Veen, Director General, Statistics Netherlands
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Plenary session
Report to the plenum on the work of the parallel sessions

Chair: Mr Jean-Michel Charpin, Director General, INSEE France

Rapporteurs are the chairs of the parallel sessions.
16:30 Discussion
17:15 End of the first day

Friday 21 September 2007

9:00 Presentation of the Hungarian Statistical System
Mr Péter Pukli, President, Hungarian CSO
9:30 Plenary session IV – Globalisation processes in the field of statistics

Chair: Ms Aija Zigure, President, Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia
Discussant: Ms Irena Križman, Director General, Statistical Office of Slovenia

IV/1 – Is globalisation a threat for official statistics? – Mr Enrico Giovannini, Chief Statistician and Director, OECD
IV/2 – Use of administrative data sources in the globalization processes in statistics – Ms Ludmila Benkovičová, President, Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic
IV/3 – Globalisation: Statistical challenges and policy evidence needs – Ms Karen Dunnell, National Statistician and Director, Mr Fernando Galindo-Rueda, Economic Analysis, Mr Richard Laux, Director, National Statistics and International Division, ONS, UK
IV/4 – Meeting the challenges of globalisation requires an enhanced cooperation between the ESS and the ECB – Mr Steven Keuning, Director General Statistics, European Central Bank
IV/5 – The impact of Globalisation in Statistical Processes: Opportunities for the ESS – Joint paper of Eurostat directorates B and D
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Roundtable discussion on the ESS response to globalisation

Chair: Mr Hervé Carré, Director General of Eurostat
Participants:
Ms Karen Dunnell, National Statistician, ONS, UK
Mr Gosse van der Veen, Director General, Statistics Netherlands
Mr Walter Radermacher, President, DESTATIS Germany
Ms Alda de Caetano Carvalho, President, INE Portugal
Mr Steven Keuning, Director General Statistics, European Central Bank
Mr Enrico Giovannini, Chief Statistician and Director, OECD
12:40 Closing of the Conference
Mr Péter Pukli, President, Hungarian CSO
13:00 End of the conference