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The Framework Cooperation Agreement between Oesterreichische Nationalbank and Statistics Austria: Providing official statistics in a more efficient wayFramework Cooperation Agreement • April 21st, 2013
At the beginning of 2000, the former Austrian Central Statistical Office was separated from Government Services by a new Federal Statistics Act. Since then it is an independent and non-profit-making federal institution under public law and is called Statistics Austria (STAT). It is responsible for performing scientific services in the area of federal statistics. In the performance of its duties, Statistics Austria has to observe a number of principles in the interest of its clients, other users and respondents. These principles are laid down particularly in the United Nations (UN) Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics and the European Statistics Code of Practice. UN-principle 8 reads: “Coordination among statistical agencies within countries is essential to achieve consistency and efficiency in the statistical system.” With Austria’s accession to the European Union in 1995 new challenges arose for the production of official statistics and for providing them better, cheaper and
