Reference documentation
Legal basis for European Statistics
- Statistics in the Treaty of the Functioning of the European Union
- Statistical Law (Regulation 223/2009/EC)
- Community Statistical Programme 2008 to 2012 (Decision No 1578/2007/EC)
- Commission Decision 97/281/EC on the role of Eurostat as regards the production of Community statistics
Legislative procedures
- New Comitology regulation
- Guide to the ordinary legislative procedure
- Joint Declaration on Practical Arrangements for the Co-decision Procedure (2007/C 145/5)
- Council Decision (2009/937/EU) of 1 December 2009 adopting the Council's Rules of Procedure
- Co-decision Chart
- Comitology Decision
- Communication COM(2009) 673 from the Commission about the implementation of Article 290 of the Lisbon Treaty
- Report by the Council on the implementation of Articles 290 and 291 TFEU
- Belgian presidency – Eurostat paper on guiding principles for statistical legislation (delegated acts)
Other documents
- Lisbon Treaty (Consolidated version)
- European Statistics Code of Practice
- Communication COM(2009) 404 from the Commission to the EP and the Council on the production method of EU statistics: a vision for the next decade
- Communication COM (2006) 693 from the Commission to the EP and the Council on reduction of the response burden, simplification and priority setting in the field of Community statistics
- List of Council preparatory bodies
- Legislative Advancement Sheet
- GDP and beyond – Measuring progress in a changing world
- Europe 2020 – A European strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth