About DGINS

DGINS Conference is the most important forum in the European Union for exchanging views about the future and development of the European Statistical System (ESS).

The first DGINS meeting was held in Luxembourg in 1953. Nowadays the DGINS Conference is held once a year in one of the Member States with the aim of discussing topics related to the statistical programme and current strategic issues in statistics. Around 120 people, including the Presidents of the National Statistical Offices, representatives of the European Commission, the European Central Bank, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, participate in this meeting. It takes place back to back with the meeting of the ESSC and the Partnership Group.

The present mandate for the DGINS Conference has been adopted by the Statistical Programme Committee at its meeting on 22–23 November 2000, indicating the objectives, tasks and functions of the Conference. According to this document, the specific objectives of the DGINS Conference are defined as:

Following topics have been covered since 2007:

DGINS 2016 2016 Vienna Statistics on income, consumption and wealth / Managing a modern NSI in the 21st century
DGINS 2015 2015 Lisbon Risks to the ESS Vision 2020 implementation / Indicators for decision making and monitoring
DGINS 2014 2014 Riga Implementation of the ESS Vision 2020 / Towards global business statistics
DGINS 2013 2013 Scheveningen ESS future and how we get there / New round of Peer reviews / Big Data
DGINS 2012 2012 Prague Labelling of European statistics and access to micro-data / Meeting new needs on statistics for green economy / Coordination of statistics and geospatial information
DGINS 2011 2011 Wiesbaden Next generation of the Code of Practice – five years after Cracow / New conceptual design for household and social statistics
DGINS 2010 2010 Sofia Measuring progress, well-being and sustainable development
DGINS 2009 2009 Malta Migration – Statistical mainstreaming
DGINS 2008 2008 Vilnius Reduction of the administrative burden through official Statistics
DGINS 2007 2007 Budapest The ESS response to globalization – are we doing enough?