The Twinning project "Support to the State Statistical Committee and the State Tax Service under the Ministry of Economy to strengthen collection, harmonization, analysis, publishing and dissemination of business statistics” funded by the European Union was officially launched by the Kick-off event on 29 September 2020, via videoconference.

The project is jointly implemented by the Consortium consisting of Statistics Finland (Leader of Consortium), Statistics Lithuania and Statistics Netherlands. The main beneficiaries are The State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan and The State Tax Service under the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

The overall objective of the Twinning project that will last 17 months is to increase capacity among local operators to collect, harmonize, analyze, publish and disseminate data on performance of the private sector/small and medium business in Azerbaijan. The project envisages missions that seek to improve the capacity of the State Statistical Committee and the State Tax Service under the Ministry of Economy in order to strengthen statistical business registers and considering the demand of users for business statistics to align business statistics methodology with EU standards.