Quality assurance and labelling
Article 11
1. Eurostat shall ensure the quality management of European statistics. For that purpose, and on the basis of established quality criteria, while answering user needs for statistics with different quality profiles, Eurostat shall: (a) monitor and assess the quality of the data that it collects or receives, and report upon the quality of the European statistics that it disseminates; (b) promote and apply a labelling process for European statistics; (c) verify the data that are under Eurostat’s responsibility in the context of the Union’s enhanced economic governance and apply all the powers that have been specifically granted to Eurostat in the relevant procedures. 2. Eurostat shall establish a quality assurance framework, reflecting the measures in place or to be taken in order to ensure the proper implementation of the European statistics Code of Practice.