Your rapporteur also believes that a monitoring mission should not include private experts, but only members of national institutions from the Member States or from Eurostat; furthermore, he considers it inadvisable to have Commission experts from outside Eurostat: in fact, there is an inconsistency in seeking independence for the statistical institutions visited, whilst, at the same time, organising in-depth visits opened up to other Commission bodies; these visits, which are statistical, and, more precisely, methodological in nature, should be the sole responsibility of Eurostat, where it can exercise its independence in relation to the executive.
Your rapporteur also believes that a monitoring mission should not include private experts, but only members of national institutions from the Member States or from Eurostat; furthermore, he considers it inadvisable to have Commission experts from outside Eurostat: in fact, there is an inconsistency in seeking independence for the statistical institutions visited, whilst, at the same time, organising in-depth visits opened up to other Commission bodies; these visits, which are statistical, and, more precisely, methodological in nature, should be the sole responsibility of Eurostat, where it can exercise its independence in relation to the executive.