The Twenty-Fourth Session of the Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities (CCSA) was held in Rome, Italy on 11-12 September 2014. Being the co-chair of the Committee, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) hosted the session. Prof. Savas Alpay, Director General of SESRIC, represented the Centre thereat.

The Agenda of the Twenty-Fourth Session included:

• Report on the survey results by FAO and UNSD on the “Principles Governing International Statistical Activities”
• Organizational aspects of SDMX implementation by ECB
• Report by UNSD on “Post-2015 Development Agenda”
• Concept note by Co-Chairs and UNECE on “Review of working methods of the CCSA”
• Report by ECB on “CCSA Special Session on ‘Measures for enhancing the quality of International Statistics: Serving Policy Making with International Statistics’ at the ‘Q2014 - European conference on quality in statistics’, Vienna, 03-05 June 2014”
• Report by ECB and FAO on the “Preparation of a CCSA session at the ‘60th World Statistics Congress – ISI 2015’ in Rio de Janeiro”
• Oral report by UNSD on the “Preparation of the 46th Session of the UN Statistical Commission”
• Oral presentation by Eurostat on “An assessment tool of the institutional environment of an NSI”
• Agenda and dates for the 25th and 26th Sessions

For further information, please visit: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/accsub/ccsa24.htm