2.1.               Chapter 2 outlines the need for and importance of a legal framework to regulate the activities of institutions involved in data collection and compilation, in accordance with the statistical framework recommended by MSITS 2010 for the measurement of the international supply of services, the content of data sources and the confidentiality of the information provided. The chapter focuses on the following subject matter:  good practices (section A); the importance of the legal framework (section B); legal acts governing the content and availability of data sources (section C); legal acts regulating institutional arrangements (section D); legal acts protecting the confidentiality of reported data (section E); and country practices (section F).