Legislation

The Census is conducted in the framework of the following regulations:

• European Regulation

The Census of Population 2021 is conducted according to Regulation (EC) No 763/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 July 2008 on population and housing censuses. Based on this regulation, National Statistical Offices should provide reliable, detailed and comparable data on population and housing, following basic methodological principles, definitions and specific deadlines for the submission of data and metadata.

• The Official Statistics Law of 2021 (Law No. 25(Ι)/2021)

The Official Statistics Law of 2021 (Law No. 25(Ι)/2021) provides the legal basis for the development, production and dissemination of official statistics in Cyprus. This law replaces and repeals the Statistics Law of 2000 (Law No. 15(I)/2000).

The purpose of the new Law, which entered into force on the 18th March 2021, is to review and modernize the legislation governing the development, production and dissemination of official statistics. Its provisions are also in line with Regulation (EC) No. 223/2009 on European Statistics, with an emphasis on its latest amendment by Regulation (EU) 2015/759.