Legal aspects of statistical activity in the EU: projection on the EAEU

The Subject of research is the legal regulation of statistical activities in the European Union (the EU) and the Eurasian Economic Union (the EAEU) in the context of the organizational mechanism of statistical activities. The purpose of research is the analysis of the main characteristics of organizational mechanisms of statistical activities, the prospects and problems of law enforcement in the field of statistical activity of integration associations. The research methods include both theoretical (analysis, synthesis, deduction, induction, analogy) and special legal methods of cognition (formal legal and comparative legal). The main results and the scope of application. Provisions for implementation of organization of statistical activities are reflected in the primary treaties of both the EU and the EAEU. The both integration associations have similar principles lying on basis of regulation of statistical activities, including the organization of the mechanism of interaction between national competent authorities and supranational bodies of integration associations. However, regulation at the level of secondary law complements the norms of primary law and the principles to varying degrees. In the framework of the legal support for statistical activities, the focus of the EAEU, in contrast to the EU, is on the development of legal instruments for its implementation due in particular to the fact that the EAEU covers much fewer spheres than the EU. At the same time, both the EU and the EAEU face problems of law enforcement which come from the lack of a unified reporting methodology, the desire of states to maintain sovereignty. Nowadays statistical activities are carried out separately within the framework of sectoral legal acts, but the digitalization has a potential to bring a greater unification of the regulation of statistical activities within each of the integration associations.