Regulatory Framework

Country	Is there a national statistical law regulates the development, production and dissemination of official statistics in the country?	Does the national statistical law regulate statistical activities conducted by all producers of official statistics (National Statistical System or NSS) and not only the National Statistical Office (NSO)?	Does the national statistical law also regulates the development, production and dissemination of SDG indicators?	How often is specific regulatory frameworks governing statistical activities conducted by other producers of official statistics than the NSO make an explicit reference to the national statistical law?	Does the national statistical law makes explicit reference to the UN Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics? SDG 17.18.2	National Strategy for Development of Statistics (NSDS)?	Localized National Framework?
Algeria					YES	Yes (2017-2019)
Bahrain	No, Draft (2018)	Yes	No	Always	No	No (2015-2018)	No
Comoros					Yes	Yes (2015-2019)
Djibouti					No	No
Egypt	Yes	Yes	No	Always	Yes	Yes	Yes
Iraq	No, Draft	Yes	Yes	Often	Yes	Yes	Yes
Jordan	Yes	Yes	Yes	Often	Yes	Yes (2018-2022)	No
Kuwait
Lebanon
Libya	Yes (2014)	Yes	No	Never	No	Yes (2018-2023)	Yes
Mauritania					Yes	Yes (2016-2020)
Morocco	Yes	No	Yes	Always	No	No	Yes
Oman	Yes (NA)	Yes	No	Often	Yes	Yes	No
Qatar	Yes (2015)	Yes	Yes	Always	Yes	Yes (2018-2022)	Yes
Saudi Arabia	Yes (2015)	Yes	Yes	Always	Yes	Yes (2019-2030)	Yes
Somalia
State of Palestine	Yes (2000)	Yes	Yes	Often	Yes	Yes (2018-2022))	Yes
Sudan	Yes (2004)/(2018 Draft	Yes	Yes	NA/Draft	Yes	Yes	Yes
Syrian Arab Republic
Tunisia	No, Draft	Yes	Yes	Often	No	No	No
United Arab Emirates	Yes (2015)	Yes	No	Often	Yes	Yes	Yes
Yemen	Yes	Yes	Yes	Often	No	No (2006-2010)	No