Introduce measures, through legislation or decrees, to enhance the operations and autonomy of the agency producing official statistics.
At P1R5, sb modified from "submit to Parliament a draft law on Official Statistics" to current descriptor, as the Georgian authorities needed more flexibility regarding the instruments they will use to improve the official statistics. In view of the government's good track record on structural reform (many of these reforms were done outside the program), the mission team changed the drafting which now no longer focuses exclusively on the law on statistics.  Still maintains 3/31/07 test date.  At P1R6, "little progress has been made on enhancing the operations and autonomy of the statistics agency."