Outcome of the sixth meeting of the Council Working Party on Statistics

Brussels, 5 December 2023

The sixth meeting of the Council Working Party on Statistics (CWPS) under the Spanish Presidency took place on Tuesday 5 December 2023 in Brussels. It was the last meeting of this group under the Spanish Presidency.

The meeting started with the presentation by the European Central Bank of its opinion about the Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on European Union labour market statistics on businesses. After that, the group resumed the discussions about the Commission proposal, starting in paragraph 7 of article 4. The debates also covered the annex of the proposal.

In the afternoon session, the Presidency debriefed the Member States about the Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on European statistics on population and housing, in particular the state of play of the negotiations in trilogues. The delegates expressed their opinion about some alternative proposals presented by the Presidency in view of the pending negotiations.

Finally, under any other business, the Presidency informed about the state of play of other statistical dossiers. More specifically, the Presidency shared with the delegates the results of a political trilogue on European environmental economic accounts (EEEA) that had taken place during the morning, and informed about its intention to launch a written consultation on the main issues in view of the upcoming technical meetings.