Statistical process control" means a method of quality control of a product or a process that relies on a system of analysis of an adequate sample size without the need to measure every product of the process.

The existing set of rules needs to be extended to ensure that Eurostat, as the statistical authority, can carry out effective checks on the data notified by Member States;

That is why we need data and statistics to facilitate comparative assessments based on which solutions can be identified.

At its recent meeting in November 1998, the ICCAT standing committee on research and statistics was asked to perform a new assessment of the western Atlantic and eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna populations.

(d) "prevention of pollution" shall mean use of processes, practices, materials or products that avoid, reduce or control pollution, which may include recycling, treatment, process changes, control mechanisms, efficient use of resources and material substitution;

Access to information When the Commission so requests, after obtaining the opinion of the Committee provided for in Article 9, Member States shall carry out statistical analyses of the registers and transmit the results, including the data declared confidential by the Member States pursuant to national legislation or practice concerning statistical confidentiality, in accordance with Council Regulation (Euratom, EEC) No 1588/90 of 11 June 1990 on the transmission of data subject to statistical confidentiality to the Statistical Office of the European Communities (7).