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Tasks of the Statistical Coordination and Legal Affairs Department

Statistical Coordination and Legal Affairs Department

 

Tasks of the Statistical Coordination and Legal Affairs Department:

1. co-ordinating the technical review within the HCSO of the submissions received in the framework of administrative consultation and management preparation for the Public Administration Secretary's meeting, the preparation of the draft response letter, its submission for signature, and the registration of the submissions;
2. contributing to the tasks related to ensuring the consistency of national legislation and European Union legislation on statistics;
3. co-ordinating the preparation of the National Statistical Survey Programme (NSSP), the compilation of the NSSP, preparing the submissions concerning the NSSP, coordinating the activities of the bodies of the Official Statistical Service related to the preparation of the NSSP;
4. performing the secretariat functions of the National Statistical Council;
5. performing professional supervisory tasks related to document management, checking compliance with document management requirements, ensuring the handling of documents arriving at the central mailroom, performing the tasks of the HCSO's dispatching; performing administrative tasks related to the HCSO's Statistical and IT Document Repository (DOCTAR);
6. harmonising and co-ordinating the HCSO's professional relations with the organisations of the Official Statistical Service;
7. participating in expert and management-level consultations on statistical data collection between the relevant departments of the HCSO and other members of the Official Statistical Service, and in the development of the content and form of cooperation;
8. coordinating the development of a system of cooperation on data transfers and data transmission involving several departments in parallel;
9. participating in the procedures for the development of quality assurance, changes to the content, deletion and creation of new administrative and official records;
10.  co-ordinating the tasks related to the formal and professional compliance with of the European Statistics Code of Practice, representing HCSO’s position at various fora of the European Union, coordinating the tasks related to the peer review of the European Statistics Code of Practice;
11.  co-ordinating the development of the content and format of the National Statistics Code of Practice and the audit methodology based on it, proposing the necessary professional consultations, ensuring the publication of the Code, its regular content review and possible updating;
12.  preparing reports and analyses on the functioning of the Official Statistical Service;
13.  developing training and further training programmes, providing professional support to the members of the Official Statistical Service;
14.  co-ordinating the regular data transmissions to the European Commission (Eurostat);
15.  in relation with the exercise of the ownership of Statek Ltd:
  15.1. preparing for issue the decisions of the Statek Ltd.'s founders, the decisions of the Statek Ltd.'s owners, the written instructions of the Statek Ltd.'s owners, as well as providing professional opinions on the amendments to the Statutes, the remuneration regulations to be issued for the Statek Ltd.'s officers, members of the Supervisory Board and employees subject to Section 208 of Act I of 2012 on the Labour Code;
  15.2. taking a position on other legal issues and matters related to the exercise of the rights of the founder and owner;
  15.3. preparing for issue the cooperation agreement between the HCSO and Statek Ltd. and providing a professional opinion on the grant agreement, and ensuring that they are signed by the legal adviser;
  15.4. providing legal assessments of the employment contracts of Statek Ltd.'s senior executives, their amendment and termination;
  15.5. prior to approval, providing a legal assessment of contracts of Statek Ltd. with a value exceeding the amount specified in the articles of association and falling within the scope of approval by the founder;
16.  ensuring the conformity of the HCSO's public organisational instruments (internal rules) with legislation;
17.  providing legal assessments and obtaining the signature of legal advisers on civil law contracts concluded by the HCSO and, in the case of cooperation agreements concluded by the HCSO, ensuring that the final text of the agreements is drafted, in compliance with the law and submitted for signature;
18.  ensuring the legal representation of the HCSO in legal proceedings and litigation;
19.  participating in the preparation of the draft proposal and the draft ministerial decree to be submitted by the Minister supervising the HCSO, in accordance with Section 35 of the HCSO’s Organisational and Operational Rules;
20.  preparing legal assessments at the request of other departments;
21.  participating in the performance of tasks related to data protection and in the work of the Data Protection Committee.