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The ESS Committee shall be consulted by the Commission in regard to: the measures which the Commission intends to take for the development, production and dissemination of European statistics, their justification on a cost-effectiveness basis, the means and timetables for achieving them, the response burden on survey respondents; proposed developments and priorities in the European statistical programme; initiatives to bring into practice the reprioritisation and reduction of the response burden; issues concerning statistical confidentiality; the further development of the Code of Practice; and any other question, in particular issues of methodology, arising from the establishment or implementation of statistical programmes that are raised by its Chair, either on its own initiative or at the request of a Member State.
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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-05 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.