History
1953 The Statistics Division for the European Coal and Steel Community established.
1958 The European Community founded and the forerunner of Eurostat established.
1959 The present name of Eurostat as the Statistical Office of the European Communities adopted. First publication issued - on agricultural statistics.
1960 First Community Labour Force Survey.
1970 The European System of Integrated Economic Accounts (European System of Accounts, ESA) published and the general Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community (NACE) established.
1974 First domain in the statistical database Cronos databank installed.
1988 European Commission adopts a document defining the first policy for statistical information.
1989 The Statistical Programme Committee established and the first programme (1989–1992) adopted by the Council as an instrument for implementing statistical information policy.
1990 The Council adopts a directive on transmission of confidential data to Eurostat, previously an obstacle to Community statistical work.
1991 Eurostat’s role extended as a result of the agreement on establishment of the European Economic Area and adoption of the Maastricht Treaty.
1993 The single market extends Eurostat’s activities e.g. Intrastat established for statistics on intra-EU trade. Eurostat starts issuing regular news releases.
1994 First European household panel held, analysing income, employment, poverty, social exclusion, households, health, etc.
1997 Statistics added for the first time to the Treaty of Amsterdam and the Statistical Law approved by the Council. Harmonised Indices of Consumer Prices HICP published for the first time - designed for Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union (EMU) convergence criteria.
1998 The eleven countries in at the start of EMU (EUR-11) announced, and Eurostat issues the first indicators specific to the EMU area.
1999 Start of EMU, 1 January 2001.
2002 Start of the Euro on 1 January, Eurostat supplies key statistics for monetary policy.
2003 Irregularities were suspected in Eurostat, see Eurostat scandal.
2004 Start of free-of-charge dissemination of all statistical data except microdata for research purposes.
2005 Commission Recommendation on the independence, integrity and Accountability of the National and Community Statistical Authorities (European Statistics Code of Practice)
2005 Start of a three year peer review exercise across the European Statistical System to monitor compliance with the Code of Practice.
2007 The currently valid five-year Statistical Programme 2008-2012 was adopted.
2009 New European Regulation governing statistical cooperation in the European Union was adopted.
2010 Following strong critics from within and outside the EU on how it did handle falsified Greek data, Eurostat published a report to try to justify its procedures.
2011 Revision of European Statistics Code of Practice by the European Statistical System Committee. ref>http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/quality/code_of_practice
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