The latest version of the Generic Statistical Business Process Model (GSBPM 5.1) and the Generic Activity Model for Statisitical Organisations (GAMSO 1.2) were endorsed by the Conference of European Statisticians at their annual conference in June 2019. Both models were reviewed during 2018 and made up to date with the needs of Statistical Organisations. This work was carried out by a Task Team of specialist under the Modernisation Group on Supporting Standards working under the High-level Group for the Modernisation of Official Statistics and all CES countries were consulted twice in this process.

The changes made in the new version of GSBPM aim to make the model more applicable to new data sources and improve the clarity of the description. The most notable changes made to the model are the following:
• Descriptions of the phases and the sub-processes were updated to be less survey-centric. Activities related to working with non-statistical data providers were added where necessary.
• Descriptions were expanded to include tasks needed to use geospatial data, in recognition of the growing importance of integrating statistical data with geospatial data.
• Examples and descriptions were updated and expanded to improve clarity.
• The duplication between GSBPM (version 5.0) and GAMSO was resolved by removing corporate-level overarching processes from GSBPM as these are covered by GAMSO.

The review approach adopted for GAMSO was different than for GSBPM as the latest version of GAMSO was released only in 2017 and the usage of the model was still limited compared to GSBPM. The changes were minor and concerned some improvements of descriptions in GAMSO to maintain its alignment with GSBPM.

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