Memoirs of Eurostat
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Alberto De Michelis was born in Rome (Italy) After five years as head of the ‘Agriculture concerning statistical information for the Eurostat Data Shops on 7 February 1938. He studied political accounts and structures’ division between economic and monetary union (ESA–95, sciences and economics at the University of 1983 and 1987, he became head of the financial accounts, HICP) for the Community Florence (Italy) and economics and statistics ‘Planning, budget, relations with other budget (GNP for own resources), for the BELGIQUE/BELGIË FRANCE NEDERLAND UNITED KINGDOM EUROSTAT HOME PAGE www.europa.eu.int/comm/eurostat/ at the IPSOA Institute in Turin before joining Community institutions and international General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) Eurostat Data Shop INSEE Info service Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek Eurostat Data Shop the European Commission (Directorate-General organisations’ division in 1987. Under the and for international price comparisons Bruxelles/Brussel Eurostat Data Shop Eurostat Data Shop — Voorburg Office for National Statistics MEDIA SUPPORT for Social Affairs) in 1962 and then Eurostat direct responsibility of the Director-General of (purchasing power parity (PPP) and corrector Planistat Belgique 195, rue de Bercy Postbus 4000 Room 1.015 Cardiff Road EUROSTAT in 1963. Eurostat, Yves Franchet, Alberto De Michelis coefficients). Rue du Commerce 124 Tour Gamma A 2270 JM Voorburg Newport NP10 8XG (only for professional journalists) Alberto De Michelis was in charge of the reorganisation of the Handelsstraat 124 F-75582 Paris Cedex 12 Nederland B-1000 Bruxelles/Brussel Tél. (33) 1 53 17 88 44 South Wales Postal address: Honorary Director-General Tel. (31-70) 337 49 00 During his first 20 years in Eurostat programming and planning of the resources of Alberto De Michelis left Eurostat voluntarily in Tél. (32-2) 234 67 50 Fax (33) 1 53 17 88 22 United Kingdom Jean Monnet building of the European Fax (31-70) 337 59 84 (1963–83), Alberto De Michelis worked in Eurostat and of the discussions in the Council April 2000. Fax (32-2) 234 67 51 E-mail: [email protected] Tel. (44-1633) 81 33 69 L-2920 Luxembourg Commission. E-mail: [email protected] Fax (44-1633) 81 33 33 many sectors of Eurostat (national accounts, concerning the organisation of the ESS. He E-mail: [email protected] Member of the MIDAS Net Office: BECH A4/017 — URL: www.cbs.nl/eurodatashop E-mail: [email protected] European citizen price statistics, foreign trade statistics, was also responsible for the development of URL: http://www.datashop.org/ 5, rue Alphonse Weicker of Italian nationality. cooperation with developing countries) and the Training of European Statisticians (TES) ITALIA - ROMA L-2721 Luxembourg PORTUGAL NORGE DANMARK Tel. (352) 43 01-33408 he was involved, as statistician of the project. ISTAT Statistics Norway Eurostat Data Shop Lisboa European Commission, in major international In January 1993, he became Director of Danmarks Statistik Centro di informazione statistica Library and Information Centre Fax (352) 43 01-35349 negotiations (GATT, Kennedy Round, Directorate ‘Economic Statistics and Economic Bibliotek og Information — Sede di Roma INE/Serviço de Difusão Eurostat Data Shop E-mail: Av. António José de Almeida, 2 Associated African, Caribbean and Pacific and Monetary Convergence’. His directorate Eurostat Data Shop Eurostat Data Shop Kongens gate 6 [email protected] Sejrøgade 11 Via Cesare Balbo, 11a P-1000-043 Lisboa countries). was in charge of the major projects Boks 8131 Dep. DK-2100 København Ø I-00184 Roma Tel. (351) 21 842 61 00 N-0033 Oslo Tlf. (45) 39 17 30 30 Tel. (39) 06 46 73 32 28 Fax (351) 21 842 63 64 Tel. (47) 21 09 46 42/43 Fax (45) 39 17 30 03 Fax (39) 06 46 73 31 01/07 E-mail: [email protected] Fax (47) 21 09 45 04 E-post: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] URL: http://www.ssb.no/ Alain Chantraine was born in Liège (Belgium) He subsequently headed two Eurostat units: and the management of human and financial URL: http://www.dst.dk/bibliotek URL: http://www.istat.it/Prodotti-e/ SUOMI/FINLAND Allegati/Eurostatdatashop.html biblioteket/datashop/ on 19 December 1940. He graduated in ‘Short-term industrial statistics’ from 1977 to resources. DEUTSCHLAND Member of the MIDAS Net Statistics Finland financial sciences from the École des hautes 1980 and then ‘National accounts’ until 1986. Eurostat Data Shop Helsinki SCHWEIZ/SUISSE/SVIZZERA Statistisches Bundesamt Tilastokirjasto études commerciales de Liège (Belgium) in As Director, he was a member of various Eurostat Data Shop Berlin ITALIA - MILANO Statistisches Amt des Kantons 1962 and joined Eurostat in November of the On being appointed Director in 1987, he took committees, both within the Commission Otto-Braun-Straße 70-72 ISTAT PL 2B Zürich same year. charge of statistical processing and (sound and efficient management, promotions, (Eingang: Karl-Marx-Allee) Ufficio regionale per la Lombardia FIN-00022 Tilastokeskus Eurostat Data Shop Bleicherweg 5 dissemination. When Eurostat was training) and in the Member States (Statistics D-10178 Berlin Eurostat Data Shop Työpajakatu 13 B, 2. kerros, Helsinki CH-8090 Zürich Tel. (49) 1888-644 94 27/28 Via Fieno, 3 P. (358-9) 17 34 22 21 During his early years at Eurostat he compiled reorganised in 1993, he became Director of Advisory Committee in the United Kingdom Tel. (41) 1 225 12 12 Alain Chantraine (49) 611 75 94 27 I-20123 Milano F. (358-9) 17 34 22 79 the first Community input-output tables (for general affairs, international and and the Central Committee for Statistics in Fax (41) 1 225 12 99 Fax (49) 1888-644 94 30 Tel. (39) 02 80 61 32 460 Sähköposti: [email protected] Honorary Director-General six countries) and helped in the drafting of interinstitutional relations and external and the Netherlands). E-Mail: [email protected] E-Mail: [email protected] Fax (39) 02 80 61 32 304 URL: of the European the first version of the European System of intra-Community trade statistics. During this URL: http://www.statistik.zh.ch Commission. URL: http://www.eu-datashop.de/ E-mail: [email protected] http://tilastokeskus.fi/tk/kk/datashop/ Integrated Economic Accounts (ESA). In 1970 time he dealt with matters such as the Alain Chantraine retired in December 2000. URL: http://www.istat.it/Prodotti-e/ USA European citizen he became head of an agricultural sector introduction of Intrastat and cooperation with ESPAÑA Allegati/Eurostatdatashop.html SVERIGE Haver Analytics of Belgian nationality. dealing with land use, production and crop the countries of central and eastern Europe Member of the MIDAS Net INE Statistics Sweden Eurostat Data Shop product balances. The Director-General, and the CIS countries. Eurostat Data Shop Information service 60 East 42nd Street Paseo de la Castellana, 183 LUXEMBOURG Jacques Mayer, then asked him to become his Eurostat Data Shop Suite 3310 Despacho 011B Eurostat Data Shop Luxembourg New York, NY 10165 personal assistant, with responsibility for In 1997 he became responsible for statistical Karlavägen 100 Entrada por Estébanez Calderón 46 A, avenue J. F. Kennedy Tel. (1-212) 986 93 00 statistical matters. planning, internal management, legal affairs Box 24 300 E-28046 Madrid BP 1452 Fax (1-212) 986 69 81 Tel. (34) 915 839 167 / 915 839 500 L-1014 Luxembourg S-104 51 Stockholm E-mail: [email protected] Fax (34) 915 830 357 Tél. (352) 43 35-2251 Tfn (46-8) 50 69 48 01 URL: http://www.haver.com/ E-mail: [email protected] Fax (352) 43 35-22221 Fax (46-8) 50 69 48 99 URL: http://www.ine.es/prodyser/ E-mail: [email protected] E-post: [email protected] datashop/index.html URL: http://www.datashop.org/ URL: http://www.scb.se/tjanster/ Member of the MIDAS Net Member of the MIDAS Net datashop/datashop.asp Alberto De Michelis and Alain Chantraine Memoirs of Eurostat Fifty years serving Europe The views expressed only bind the authors and should not be considered as constituting the official position of the European Commission. A great deal of additional information on the European Union is available on the Internet. It can be accessed through the Europa server (http://europa.eu.int). Information on Eurostat can be found on its web site (http://europa.eu.int/comm/eurostat). Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2003 ISBN 92-894-5114-9 © European Communities, 2003 Reproduction of the text is authorised provided the source is acknowledged. For the photographs and illustrations, please refer to photographic credits. The High Authority … provided a powerful instrument for action by making public data that had hitherto been concealed or poorly observed. Our statistical surveys at European level brought surprising revelations in the most basic fields. Jean Monnet, Memoirs, Chapter XV. Thank you The authors of this publication would like to thank all those who were involved in National statistical institute (NSI) and international organisation its preparation. We are especially grateful to Jocelyne Collonval and Biagio correspondents: Duello, officials at the Historical Archives Department of the Commission, Claudia Cingolani (I), Teresa Clode (P), Bruno Dietsch (F), Enrico Giovannini (I), Sabine Köhler (D), Inge Kramer (A), who helped in finding documents. We also want to thank Sylvie Gori and Ada van Krimpen (NL), Olav Ljones (NO), Margarida Veronika Lorré, who helped us to track down documents in the archives of Madaleno (P), Matti Niva (S), Eurostat and the Commission. Antero Pohjola (FIN), Leah Pybus (UK), Pedro Ruiz Salvador (E), Malcom Sorrel (UK), Thanks also to Maria Kessanoglou and Gregor Kyi for the thoughtful and Kim Volby Pedersen (DK).