—promote the harmonisation, where necessary, of the rules and practices governing the collection, compilation and distribution of statistics in the areas within its field of competence;
—comhchuibhiú a chur ar aghaidh, más gá, ar na rialacha agusar na cleachtais a rialaíonn bailiú, tiomsú agus dáileadhstaidrimh sna raonta laistigh dá réimse inniúlachta;