According to Article 2 of the Decision No 234/2008/EC, the Committee shall deliver an opinion addressing in particular:
- the relevance of the Community statistical programme to the requirements of European integration and development;
- the relevance of the Community statistical programme in relation to the activities of the Community;
- the balance as regards priorities and resources between different areas in the Community statistical programme, the annual statistical work programme of the Commission, and possibilities of re-prioritising statistical work;
- the adequacy of the resources needed to implement the Community statistical programme, including the costs incurred directly by both the Community and national authorities and appropriateness to users' needs of the scope, level of detail, and costs of Community statistics;
- the costs related to the provision of statistical information by information providers and possibilities of reducing the response burden.
In addition, the Committee shall:
- draw the Commission’s attention to areas in which it may be necessary to develop new statistical activities;
- advise the Commission how to improve the relevance of the Community statistics to users, taking into account the costs borne by information providers and producers.
