Commission Regulation (EC) No 606/2008 of 26 June 2008 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: 2008-06-26
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU statistics, access to information, agricultural holding, confidentiality, dissemination of EU information, research staff, scientific research, social survey

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Official Journal of the European Union

27.6.2008

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 606/2008

of 26 June 2008

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

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

— European Community Household Panel,

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

— Labour Force Survey,

— Community Innovation Survey,

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.
the
different surveys and data sources to which it applies.

lists

It

(FSS). Access

to have access

There is growing demand from researchers and the
scientific community in general
for
scientific purposes also to confidential data from the
Farm Structure Survey
FSS
microdata would enable researchers to study the rela-
indi-
tionships between the different characteristics of
vidual agricultural holdings, such as the types of crops
grown, livestock and labour force. It would also enable
researchers
agri-environmental
that are currently based on
models and indicators
aggregated data. This survey should therefore be added
to the list in Regulation (EC) No 831/2002.

to improve

regional

to the

— Continuing Vocational Training Survey,

— Structure of Earnings Survey,

— European Union Statistics on Income

and Living

Conditions,

— Adult Education Survey,

— Farm Structure 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. In Article 6, paragraph 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:

(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

— European Community Household Panel,

— Labour Force Survey,

— Community Innovation Survey,

— Continuing Vocational Training Survey,

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

— Structure of Earnings Survey,

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

— European Union Statistics on Income

and Living

Conditions,

(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 last amended by Regu-

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

— Adult Education Survey,

— Farm Structure Survey.

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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.’

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

Article 2

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

Done at Brussels, 26 June 2008.

For the Commission

Joaquín ALMUNIA
Member of the Commission