Commission Regulation (EC) No 1000/2007 of 29 August 2007 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: 2007-08-29
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU statistics, access to information, confidentiality, dissemination of EU information, education statistics, income, living conditions, research staff

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1000/2007

of 29 August 2007

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,

and ICT skills). This survey should therefore be added
to the list in Regulation (EC) No 831/2002.

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 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

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 lists the cate-
gories of bodies whose researchers may be granted such
access, drawing a distinction between directly admissible
bodies and bodies admissible after having received the
opinion of the Committee on Statistical Confidentiality.
It also lists the different surveys and data sources to
which it applies.

statistical

Scientific research is frequently performed by units or
institutes and
departments within national
national central banks of the Member States and the
European Central Bank (ECB). These bodies provide the
appropriate guarantees as regards confidential treatment
and protection of
the data and the strictly scientific
purpose of the access. They should therefore also be
considered directly admissible bodies.

to have access

There is growing demand from researchers and the
scientific community in general
for
scientific purposes to confidential data from the Adult
Education Survey (AES) also. The AES covers information
in
on complex patterns of participation by adults
education and training,
to information on
learning opportunities and a profile of participants and
non-participants (e.g. socioeconomic background, reason
for learning, obstacles, attitudes, self-assessed languages

access

(4)

(5)

(6)

(EU-SILC),

conditions

to confidential data

laid down in Regulation (EC) No
The
831/2002 have also been made applicable to access for
from the
scientific purposes
and Living
European Union Statistics on Income
Conditions
(EC) No
Regulation
the
1177/2003 of
Council of 16 June 2003 concerning Community
statistics on income and living conditions (EU-SILC) (3).
EU-SILC is, however, not mentioned in Regulation (EC)
No 831/2002. For reasons of clarity, EU-SILC should
therefore also be added to the list in Regulation (EC)
No 831/2002.

the European Parliament and of

by

Regulation (EC) No 831/2002 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

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. In Article 3, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:

Access to confidential data may be granted by the
falling

‘1.
Community authority to researchers of bodies
within any of the following categories:

(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).

(a) universities and other higher education organisations
established under Community law or by the law of a
Member State;

(3) OJ L 163, 3.7.2003, p. 1.

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(b) organisations or institutions for scientific research estab-
lished under Community law or under the law of a
Member State;

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.’

(c) national statistical institutes of the Member States;

3. In Article 6, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:

(d) the European Central Bank and the national central

banks of the Member States;

(e) other

and institutions,

agencies, organisations

after
the Committee on
having received the opinion of
Statistical Confidentiality,
in accordance with the
procedure laid down in Article 20(2) of Regulation
(EC) No 322/97.’

‘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,

2. In Article 5, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:

— Community Innovation Survey,

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

— Continuing Vocational Training Survey,

— Structure of Earnings Survey,

— European Community Household Panel,

— Labour Force Survey,

— Community Innovation Survey,

— Continuing Vocational Training Survey,

— Structure of Earnings Survey,

— European Union Statistics on Income

and Living

Conditions,

— Adult Education 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.’

— European Union Statistics on Income

and Living

Conditions,

— Adult Education Survey.

Article 2

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

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

Done at Brussels, 29 August 2007.

For the Commission

Joaquín ALMUNIA
Member of the Commission