The present Guide aims to introduce potential partners into the world of URBACT Action Planning Networks. It will allow you to have a better understanding of what you can expect joining an URBACT Action Planning Network, in terms of resources, results and added value. It also clarifies the commitment and contributions expected from you. Enriched with concrete examples from networks funded un…
The Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services is an important first step in addressing a growing demand from Governments, business and analysts for more relevant, detailed and internationally comparable statistics on such trade. A special emphasis is given to the statistical information needs of international trade negotiations and agreements. The aim of the Manual is to provid…
This publication summarises the numerical results and methodological findings of pilot water accounts in 15 European countries. Water accounts focus on physical flows of water in to and out of the economy: abstraction and use of water by industries and households, emissions to water by different actors; as well as the costs of water supply and wastewater treatment. These pilot accounts generat…
In a somewhat simplified analysis of the economy, the economic system can be broken down into two main parts: on one side the enterprise 'operators', producing goods and services, providing employment and distributing income in the form of wages; on the other the household operators, receiving income and consuming goods and services. The other operators in the economic system are the genera…
The Econometric Study and Model to Estimate Land Prices undertaken by an external contractor on behalf of Eurostat showed that a separation of the land price part from the structure part was not feasible from the data at hand. Notwithstanding the traditional partition to land and structure becomes less clear depending on the allocation of the location variables. More conceptual work and a furth…
Based on the work undertaken by the task force on harmonisation of core social variables and the preliminary list presented at the DSS meeting in September 2005, the task force on core variables has carefully considered the list of variables, intending to realise a appropriate balance between their relevance and the feasibility of their implementation, with the help of users. Compared to the …
CEIES stands for Comité consultatif européen de l’information statistique dans les domaines économique et social; in English: ‘The European Advisory Committee on Statistical Information in the Economic and Social Spheres’. Its task is to assist the Council and the Commission in the co-ordination of the objectives of the Com- munity's statistical information policy, taking into account …
The Structural Funds for the period 2007 to 2013 were decided in December 2005. This decision was based on the objective regional statistics compiled by Eurostat, thus highlighting the importance of our effort to produce a wide range of comparable regional information. This yearbook shows many aspects of this regional data and suggests in the various chapters some of the analyses which can be …
This report studies the way risk can be managed to enhance the procurement of innovation. The latter is a concept that goes further than technology procurement, occurring when a public agency places an order for a product or system, which does not exist at the time but which could (probably) be developed within a reasonable period (Edquist et al. 2000). The procurement of innovation include…