The workshop will provide a platform for sharing experience in modernizing legal and institutional frameworks of official statistics and discussing emerging issues posing legal challenges to national statistical systems. The target audience for the meeting will be experts from national statistical offices and international organizations interested in strengthening the legal framework of official statistics and legal aspects of data access, governance, and stewardship.

The workshop will be organized by the Steering Group on Statistical Legislation, including Albania, Armenia, Greece, Ireland, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Spain, the United Kingdom, EFTA, Eurostat, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and UNECE, with support of EFTA and hosted by the Institute of Statistics of Albania (INSTAT).