The President of the NSI Assoc. Prof. Mariana Kotzeva will participate in the 41^st meeting of the Partnership Group. It will be held on 1 July 2011 in Paris, France. Key documents for the development of the European Statistical System will be considered in the forum such as a report from the Hungarian Presidency, Action plan for the Polish Presidency after 1 July 2011, implementation of the Communication from the European Commission "Towards robust quality management for European Statistics”, and development of five-year European Statistical Programme for the period 2013 - 2017. A report to the ECOFIN Council will be presented, as well as reports on the activities from the Sponsorship Group on Communication, Sponsorship Group on Progress, Wellbeing and Sustainable Development, Sponsorship Group on quality.

The preparation related to the 97^th DGINS to be held in September 2011 in Wiesbaden, will also be discussed. The conference will include two topics: "Next generation of the European Statistics Code of Practice - five years after Krakow" and "New conceptual Design for Household and Social statistics”.