2006/699/EC: Commission Decision of 17 October 2006 amending Decision 2004/452/EC laying down a list of bodies whose researchers may access confidential data for scientific purposes (notified under document number C(2006) 4857)   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2006-10-17
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU statistics, access to information, confidentiality, scientific profession, statistical method

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Official Journal of the European Union

18.10.2006

COMMISSION DECISION

of 17 October 2006

amending Decision 2004/452/EC laying down a list of bodies whose researchers may access
confidential data for scientific purposes

(notified under document number C(2006) 4857)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2006/699/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(3)

The Center of Health and Wellbeing (CHW) of
the
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International
Affairs at Princeton University, New Jersey, United
States of America has to be regarded as a body fulfilling
the required conditions and therefore has to be added to
the list of agencies, organisations 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 set
out in the Annex to this Decision.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 17 October 2006.

For the Commission

Joaquín ALMUNIA
Member of the Commission

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)

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.

(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. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 1104/2006 (OJ L 197, 19.7.2006, p. 3).

(3) OJ L 156, 30.4.2004, p. 1, corrected by OJ L 202, 7.6.2004, p. 1.
Decision as last amended by Decision 2006/429/EC (OJ L 172,
24.6.2006, p. 17).

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

German Central Bank

Employment Analysis Unit, Directorate General for Employment, social affairs and equal opportunities of the European
Commission

University of Tel Aviv (Israel)

World Bank

Center of Health and Wellbeing (CHW) of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton
University, New Jersey, United States of America.’