The Eurostat 2007 Conference "Modern Statistics for Modern Society" was held in Luxemburg on 6 - 7 December 2007. It focused on the need for modernising official statistics as a result of the increasing challenges from a more and more numerate society. The aim of the Conference was threefold: -...

This Background Report has been produced as part of the study on “Development of statistical data on the European security technological and industrial base” commissioned by the European Commission within the Framework Contract on Security (ENTR/09/050) between the European Commission and a...