Commission Regulation (EC) No 1104/2006 of  18 July 2006  amending Regulation (EC) No 831/2002 implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 322/97 on Community Statistics, concerning access to confidential data for scientific purposes   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2006-07-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU statistics, access to information, confidentiality, dissemination of EU information, information system, pay, research staff

19.7.2006

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Official Journal of the European Union

L 197/3

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1104/2006

of 18 July 2006

amending Regulation (EC) No 831/2002 implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 322/97 on
Community Statistics, concerning access to confidential data for scientific purposes

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

1. Article 5(1) is replaced by the following:

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

‘1.
The Community authority may grant access on its
premises to confidential data obtained from the following
surveys or statistical data sources:

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 322/97 of 17
February 1997 on Community Statistics (1) and in particular
Article 17(2) and Article 20(1) thereof,

— European Community Household Panel,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 831/2002 (2) estab-
lishes, 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.
It enumerates
the different surveys and data sources to which it applies.

for

to have access

There is a growing demand by researchers and scientific
community in general
scientific
purposes also to confidential data from the Structure of
Earnings Survey. The Structure of Earnings Survey
represents EU-wide harmonised structural data on gross
earnings, hours paid and annual days of paid holiday
leave which are
collected every four years under
Council Regulation (EC) No 530/1999 of 9 March
1999 concerning structural statistics on earnings and
on labour costs (3). Access
to this confidential data
would largely benefit the research work on earnings of
individuals and their relation with the characteristics of
the employer. This survey should therefore be added to
the enumeration in Regulation (EC) No 831/2002.

(3)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Committee on
Statistical Confidentiality,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 831/2002 is amended as follows:

(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 63, 12.3.1999, p. 6. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC)

No 1882/2003.

— Labour Force Survey,

— Community Innovation Survey,

— Continuing Vocational Training Survey,

— Structure of Earnings Survey.

However, on the request of the national authority which
provided the data, access
to data from that national
authority shall not be granted for a specific research project.’

2. Article 6(1) is replaced by the following:

‘1.
The Community authority may release sets of anon-
ymised microdata obtained from the following surveys or
statistical data sources:

— European Community Household Panel,

— Labour Force Survey,

— Community Innovation Survey,

— Continuing Vocational Training Survey,

— Structure of Earnings Survey.

However, on the request of the national authority which
provided the data, access
to data from that national
authority shall not be granted for a specific research project.’

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following
its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 18 July 2006.

For the Commission

Joaquín ALMUNIA
Member of the Commission