东欧国家率先要求编制统计立法国际指南，最后制订了《官方统计通用法》，2016 年，65 个国家的首席统计师核可了这部法律。摩尔多瓦共和国(2017 年)、亚美尼亚和吉尔吉斯斯坦(2018 年)是率先根据《通用法》实现本国统计法律框架现代化的国家。
Eastern European countries were the first to request the development of international guidance on statistical legislation, which led to the Generic Law on Official Statistics, endorsed by the chief statisticians of 65 countries in 2016. The Republic of Moldova in 2017 and Armenia and Kyrgyzstan in 2018 were the first countries to modernize their legal frameworks for statistics in accordance with the Generic Law.