2006/429/EC: Commission Decision of  22 June 2006  amending Decision 2004/452/EC concerning the list of bodies whose researchers may access confidential data for scientific purposes  (notified under document number C(2006) 2411)   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2006-06-22
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU statistics, access to information, confidentiality, scientific profession, statistical method

24.6.2006

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 172/17

COMMISSION DECISION

of 22 June 2006

amending Decision 2004/452/EC concerning the list of bodies whose researchers may access
confidential data for scientific purposes

(notified under document number C(2006) 2411)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2006/429/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 322/97 of
17 February 1997 on Community Statistics (1), and in particular
Article 20(1) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 831/2002 of 17 May
2002 implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 322/97
on Community statistics, concerning access to confi-
dential data for scientific purposes (2) aims at estab-
lishing, for the purpose of enabling statistical conclusions
to be drawn for scientific purposes, the conditions under
which access to confidential data transmitted to the
Community authority may be granted and the rules of
cooperation between the Community and national
authorities in order to facilitate such access.

Commission Decision 2004/452/EC of 29 April 2004
laying down a list of bodies whose researchers may
access confidential data for scientific purposes (3) has
laid down a list of bodies whose researchers may
access confidential data for scientific purposes.

The Department of Political Science of
the Baruch
College of the City University of New York (New York
the German Central
State, United States of America),
the Direc-
Bank,

the Employment Analysis Unit of

torate-General of Employment, Social Affairs and Equal
Opportunities of the European Commission, the World
Bank and the University of Tel Aviv (Israel) have to be
regarded as a bodies fulfilling the required conditions and
therefore have to be added to the list of agencies, orga-
nisations and institutions referred to in Article 3(1)(c) of
Regulation (EC) No 831/2002.

(4)

The measures provided for
accordance with the opinion of
Statistical Confidentiality,

in this Decision are in
the Committee on

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The Annex to Decision 2004/452/EC is replaced by the text in
annex to this Decision.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 22 June 2006.

For the Commission

Joaquín ALMUNIA
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 52, 22.2.1997, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC)
No 1882/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council
(OJ L 284, 31.10.2003, p. 1).

(2) OJ L 133, 18.5.2002, p. 7.
(3) OJ L 156, 30.4.2004, p. 1, as corrected by OJ L 202, 7.6.2004, p. 1.
Decision as last amended by Decision 2005/746/EC (OJ L 280,
25.10.2005, p. 16).

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Official Journal of the European Union

24.6.2006

ANNEX

‘ANNEX

Bodies whose researchers may access confidential data for scientific purposes

European Central Bank

Spanish Central Bank

Italian Central Bank

University of Cornell (New York State, United States of America)

Department of Political Science, Baruch College, City University of New York (New York State, United States of America)

German Central Bank

Unit Employment Analysis, Directorate-General of Employment, Social Affairs and Equality Opportunities of
European Commission

the

University of Tel Aviv (Israel)
World Bank’