European Union and International Organisations
Co-creating legislation and shaping the way forward
Thanks to Poland’s membership in the European Union and other international organisations, Statistics Poland helps shape the principles of European and global statistics — we have a real impact on legislation, quality standards and statistical methods. We provide comparable data and respond quickly to new phenomena. We work to keep reporting requirements proportionate and to safeguard confidentiality. Together with our partners, we agree common definitions, coverage (both thematic and institutional) for individual surveys and classifications, refine quality requirements and reporting cycles, and test new data sources — administrative, observational and digital.
Within the European Union, our work follows two main tracks. In the Council Working Party on Statistics, we assess the impact of proposed legislation and coordinate Poland’s position on draft legal acts. Within the European Statistical System — a partnership between national statistical institutes and the European Commission (Eurostat) — we agree common standards and timelines for their implementation, carry out pilot projects and then put the agreed solutions into practice at national level.
At the UN, we represent Poland in the UN Statistical Commission and in the Conference of European Statisticians under the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. We co-develop guidance, including on the modernisation of statistics, that helps structure statistical processes, data governance and interoperability, as well as addressing ethics, confidentiality and the use of new data sources.
Within the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, we participate in the work of committees and working parties: we contribute to international benchmarking exercises, co-develop measurement frameworks and methodological handbooks, and agree classifications, definitions and guidelines on data access and confidentiality. These efforts translate into shared good practices for working with microdata, integrating registers and developing experimental statistics.
We also cooperate through other regional and thematic forums and with specialised UN agencies and international institutions, including:
- International Statistical Institute
- World Health Organization
- European Central Bank
- International Monetary Fund
- World Bank
- United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
- International Labour Organization
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- Visegrad Group
This cooperation delivers tangible results: more coherent and comparable data for Poland and the EU, faster implementation of standards, and broader availability and higher usability of data. As a result, transparency and trust in official statistics increase — and public policies and business decisions rest on a solid evidence base.