23/08/2000 (Agence Europe) - Eugenio Domingo Solans, Member of the European Central Bank's Executive Board responsible for statistics, confirmed to the Handelsblatt that the ECB considers it necessary to improve statistics for the euro area in some fields (as the bank requested in a report published early August: see EUROPE of 5 August, p.4). Mr Solans declared that the ECB expects major progress from the Action Plan on the quality of statistics from the Ecofin Council in September, and the...