The session was organized by Rosstat, Petrostat, VASAB and ICSER Leontief centre. The participants of seven countries agreed that in order to improve the comparison of statistical indicators of the EU and Russia a closer cooperation is needed and proposed a number of recommendations.
The event was also one of the added value results of the BSR TeMo project – Territorial Monitoring for the Baltic Sea Region – that was initiated by VASAB and was carried out within ESPON 2013 programme.