Our policies

Eurostat maintains the quality of its statistics through rigorous standards, monitoring tools, and peer reviews that are aligned with the European Statistics Code of Practice.

Our policies ensure transparency, trust, and accountability in all aspects of statistical production. We uphold robust data protection measures in compliance with legal requirements, maintain strict statistical confidentiality to protect individual data, and enforce clear data revision protocols to guarantee accuracy.

By adhering to these policies, Eurostat strives to deliver trustworthy statistics that support informed decision-making across Europe while safeguarding the privacy and security of the data that it handles.

Data protection

Eurostat's data protection policy safeguards the privacy and security of the data it handles, in line with EU regulations.

Advanced data protection protocols prevent unauthorised access and data breaches, ensuring that personal information remains secure and is used solely for legitimate statistical analysis.

Statistical confidentiality

Statistical confidentiality, mandated by EU regulation 223/2009, legally obliges all European Statistical System members to protect identifiable data.

Eurostat's statistical confidentiality policy rigorously safeguards both directly and indirectly identifiable information, allowing its use solely for statistical purposes under strict principles and procedures.

Data revision

Eurostat revises statistical data to include new and improved sources, following a transparent data revision policy.

Such revisions are essential for ensuring high-quality statistics and are conducted according to well-established and standardised procedures to maintain accuracy and reliability.