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At the invitation of the Director of UNSD Stefan Shveinfest and the Director General of Eurostat Walter Radermacher the President of the National Statistical Institute Sergey Tsvetarsky will participate in two forums of particular importance to the development of modern statistics: World Forum for the integration of statistical and geospatial information - on 4 and 5 August 2014, and the session of the Committee of Experts on the management of global geospatial information to the United Nations - on 6 and 8 August 2014. Both events will be held at UN headquarters in New York, USA.

On 18 - 19 July 2014 in Borovets resort was held training and final conference of the project “Creation of a National Database of Social Enterprises in Bulgaria for the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy (MLSP)” under contract SI2.650082 between the European Commission, Directorate “General Enterprises and Industry” and MLSP.

On 30 June -1 July 2014 in Skopje was held the final meeting of participants in  ‘Support to the State Statistical Office for capacity building and improving compliance of statistics with EU standards’ Twinning project, on which partners are the Federal Statistical Office of Germany (DESTATIS) and the State Statistical Office of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The project started in the second half of 2012 and its duration is 24 months. Junior partner is the Statistical Office of Denmark, and experts participate from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and France.

On the occasion of the 155^th anniversary of the official Romanian statistics and at the invitation of the President of the National Institute of Statistics of Romania, Mr. Tudorel Andrei, the President of the National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria, Mr. Sergey Tsvetarsky, will take part in the celebrations on July 11, 2014 in Bucharest.

On June 30 and July 1, 2014 the National Statistical Institute hosted a visit from Eurostat, led by the Director of "Global Business Statistics", Mrs. Maria Helena Figueira, which included two heads of units in the same directorate of Eurostat - Mrs. Martina Hahn, Head of Unit "Business statistics - coordination and registers" and Mrs. Ani Todorova, Head of Unit "Goods - production and international trade."

On the 2 April 2014 the National Statistical Institute started the implementation of a project entitled: ”Development of instruments for possibilities of on-line definition and fulfillment of requests for statistical information by the BNSI website for citizens, businesses and administration through compilation of information from the BNSI surveys, tables’ generation and check of data confidentiality”.

The Bulgarian population grid 2011 was produced by National Statistical Institute of the Republic of Bulgaria (BNSI) as a part of the ESSnet project: ”Geostat 1B – representing Census data in European population grid” according signed grant aggreement No 50502.2009.004-2011.536 between BNSI and European Commission.

Sergey Tsvetarsky, President of the NSI will participate in the final meeting of the "Support to the State Statistical Office for capacity building and improving compliance of statistics with EU standards" Twinning project, which will be held on June 30 and July 1, 2014 in Skopje.

On June 30 and July 1, 2014 the National Statistical Institute hosts a mission from Eurostat, led by the Director of "Global Business Statistics", Mrs. Maria Helena Figueira, which includes two heads of units in the same directorate of Eurostat - Mrs. Martina Hahn, Head of Unit "Business statistics - coordination and registers" and Mrs. Ani Todorova, Head of Unit "Goods - production and international trade."

The National Statistical Institute and 28 regional statistical offices in the country celebrated their professional holiday with Open Doors Day at the Central Statistical Office in Sofia. The day of Bulgarian statistics is celebrated on June 25 - on this date in 1880 was established the statistical-organizational unit of the Ministry of Finance, which marks the beginning of the statistical institution in Bulgaria.