2008/291/EC: Commission Decision of 18 March 2008 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(2008) 1005) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2008-03-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU statistics, access to information, confidentiality, scientific profession, statistical method

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DECISIONS

COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 18 March 2008

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(2008) 1005)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/291/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)

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) establishes,
for
the purpose of enabling statistical conclusions to be
the conditions under
drawn for
which access to confidential data transmitted to the
Community authority may be granted and the rules of
cooperation between the Community and national auth-
orities in order to facilitate such access.

scientific purposes,

(1) OJ L 52, 22.2.1997, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation
the

the European Parliament and of

(EC) No 1882/2003 of
Council (OJ L 284, 31.10.2003, p. 1).

(2) OJ L 133, 18.5.2002, p. 7. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1000/2007 (OJ L 226, 30.8.2007, p. 7).

(2)

(3)

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

The Directorate for Research, Studies and Statistics
(Direction de l’Animation de la Recherche, des Études et des
Statistiques — DARES) in the Ministry of Labour, Labour
Relations and Solidarity, Paris, France, the Research Foun-
dation of State University of New York (RFSUNY),
Albany, USA and the Finnish Centre for Pensions, (Eläke-
turvakeskus — ETK), Finland have to be regarded as
fulfilling the required conditions and should
bodies
therefore be added to the list of agencies, organisations
and institutions referred to in Article 3(1)(e) of Regu-
lation (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.

(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 2008/52/EC (OJ L 13,
16.1.2008, p. 29).

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This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 2

Done at Brussels, 18 March 2008.

For the Commission

Joaquín ALMUNIA
Member of the Commission

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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

The University of Chicago (UofC), Illinois, United States of America

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

Family and Labour Studies Division of Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Econometrics and Statistical Support to Antifraud (ESAF) Unit, Directorate General Joint Research Centre of the European
Commission

Support to the European Research Area (SERA) Unit, Directorate General
Commission

Joint Research Centre of the European

Canada Research Chair of the School of Social Science in the Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies at York
University, Ontario, Canada

University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Chicago, USA

Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego, USA

Directorate for Research, Studies and Statistics (Direction de l’Animation de la Recherche, des Études et des Statistiques —
DARES) in the Ministry of Labour, Labour Relations and Solidarity, Paris, France

The Research Foundation of State University of New York (RFSUNY), Albany, USA

Finnish Centre for Pensions (Eläketurvakeskus — ETK), Finland’