Pursuant to Article 20 of the Official Statistics Act (Official Gazette, Nos 25/20 and 155/23), the Statistical Council of the Republic of Croatia is established at the Croatian Bureau of Statistics. The Council is an advisory and expert body that deals with strategic issues of official statistics, which has been established to ensure the influence of users, science and the general public on the activities of official statistics. The members of the Council are nominated by institutions and bodies referred to in Article 22, paragraph 3 of the Act and appointed by the Government of the Republic of Croatia.