Article 6 3.

‘relevance’ shall refer to the degree to which statistics meet current and potential needs of the users;

‘accuracy’ shall refer to the closeness of estimates to the unknown true values;

‘timeliness’ shall refer to the delay between the availability of the information and the event or phenomenon it describes;

‘punctuality’ shall refer to the delay between the date of the release of the data and the target date when it should have been delivered;

‘accessibility’ and ‘clarity’ shall refer to the conditions and modalities by which users can obtain, use and interpret data;

‘comparability’ shall refer to the measurement of the impact of differences in applied statistical concepts and measurement tools and procedures where statistics are compared between geographical areas, sectoral domains or over time;

‘coherence’ shall refer to the adequacy of the data to be reliably combined in different ways and for various uses.