National Productivity Board

The National Productivity Board (CNP, Conseil national de la productivité) is the result of a European initiative. It was created in Luxembourg in 2018 following a recommendation by the EU Council.

The CNP brings together experts from the public sector, from the academic sphere, from the business world and the trade union movement. It benefits from functional autonomy, which enables it to conduct its work objectively, neutrally and independently, to produce analyses prepared in the general interest and to communicate publicly at the appropriate time.

The CNP is responsible for following the evolutions within the field of productivity taking into account national particularities and EU-related aspects. It is required to conduct a diagnosis and an analysis of productivity in Luxembourg, based on transparent and comparable indicators. The scope of the work incorporates productivity in the broader sense, including cost and non-cost factors, the long-term determinants of productivity as well as the associated economic, social and environmental challenges and issues.

The CNP is required to draw up an annual report which is submitted to the Economic and Social Council (CES, Conseil économique et social) for an opinion. The CNP's annual report and the CES's corresponding opinion are published and notified to the European Commission.

The Observatory for Competitiveness (ODC) contributes to the work of the CNP. In particular, the ODC acts as the CNP's secretariat, performs macroeconomic analyses and coordinates the drafting of the CNP's annual report. Equally, the ODC participates in the European Network of National Productivity Boards on the CNP's behalf.