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The President of the National Statistical Institute, Assoc. Prof. Mariana Kotzeva and the Director of “European and International Cooperation and Coordination” Directorate Mrs. Eleonora Avramova will take part in the 11^th meeting of the European Statistical System Committee (ESSC), which will be held on 17 November 2011 in Eurostat.

NSI successfully concludes the first twinning project with the State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the results of which were presented at the closing conference, held on 10-11 November 2011 in Baku.

The Director of “European and International Cooperation and Coordination” Directorate Mrs. Eleonora Avramova will participate in a meeting of the Dissemination Working Group which will be held on 10-11 November 2011 in Eurostat. During the meeting the report for the performance of the Sponsorship on Communication will be submitted for approval.

The library of the National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria (BNSI) has the pleasure to inform the users of statistical information about the opportunity of on–line access to "Population Census 1881" and "Population Census 1885".

The President of the National Statistical Institute Assoc. Prof. Mariana Kotzeva will take part in the third meeting of the Group on Statistical Cooperation in South East Europe, which will take place on 26 October 2011 in Zagreb, hosted by the Central Bureau of Statistics of Croatia.

Directors General of statistical offices of Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, candidate countries and potential candidate countries in the region and representatives of Eurostat, will attend the forum.

The President of NSI Assoc. Prof. Mariana Kotzeva will take part in the sixth, the last meeting of the Sponsorship Group on Communication, which will be held on 13 and 14 October 2011 in Barcelona, Spain.

The topics for discussion at the upcoming forum are related to connection of communication aspects with other Eurostat Sponsorship groups and measuring satisfaction on the visibility of the European Statistical System (ESS).

Final editing of the end report on the work of the group will be done as well.

The President of the National Statistical Institute (NSI) Assoc. Prof. Mariana Kotzeva and the Director of the European, International Cooperation and Coordination Directorate Mrs. Eleonora Avramova will participate in the 97^th Conference of the Directors-General of the National Statistical Institutes (DGINS) to be held in Wiesbaden, Germany, on 26 and 27 September 2011.

Eurostat experts will be on a working visit on the PRODCOM survey (Community Survey of Industrial Production) in the period 19-20 September 2011. The visit is carried out within the framework of the Eurostat Programme for Quality Visits to EU Member States. Among the Eurostat experts is Mr. Thierry Courtel – Head of the PRODCOM team. They will meet their Bulgarian colleagues from the “Structural Business Statistics” Department.

The President of the National Statistical Institute Assoc. Prof. Mariana Kotzeva will take part in the 58^th World Statistics Congress of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), which will be held in Dublin, Ireland, from 21^st to 26^th August 2011.