The third round of Peer review 2021-2023 on the implementation of the ES Code of Practice enters in the National Statistical Institute (NSI) life when the external world is facing rapid changes due to the new data ecosystem and ongoing modernization processes. There is a growing availability of data, that implies for the producers of official statistics to face new challenges, in particular for the use of new data sources, the access to privately held data, and integration of data from multiple data sources. The Peer review represents for the NSI a great opportunity to make visible all the progresses made to better respond to these challenges in the institutional environment, in the statistical processes, and in their outputs. The Peer Review is the important appointment in which the awareness of the role of official statistics come out to enhance the statistical capacity of a country as well as the role of the NSI in the society. The Peer Review is a strategic phase, for the experience of the NSI it becomes the opportunity to systematize information, to check current and future needs of resources and to increase the cooperation and coordination with Other National Authorities (ONA) producing European Statistics and all other relevant stakeholders of the National Statistical System and beyond. The experience from the third round of peer reviews in Italy would provide a picture of its impact on the NSI quality commitment, of the challenges in the future activities on the basis of the results but also benefits and opportunities retrieved by the main findings of the experience of the Peer Review .
