Statement 1: Staggered form is less stable than the eclipsed form.

Statement 2: The conformation in which the bond pairs of two central atoms are farthest to each other is called staggered form.

The staggered form is more stable than the eclipsed form because the potential energy of staggered form in which the bond pairs of two carbons are far away from each other is minimum. Also the H-atoms are as far apart as possible and non bonded interaction between them is maximum. In occupied form, the H-atom are very close and so increased there is an overlap between them and non bonded orbitals are repulsive. That is why staggered form is more stable than eclipsed form.