CELEX: 32007D0439
Language: en
Date: 2007-06-25 00:00:00
Title: 2007/439/EC: Commission Decision of 25 June 2007 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(2007) 2565) (Text with EEA relevance)

26.6.2007   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 164/30
            
         
      COMMISSION DECISION
   
   of 25 June 2007
   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(2007) 2565)
   (Text with EEA relevance)
   (2007/439/EC)
   THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
   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 confidential data for scientific purposes (2) establishes, 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.
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               Commission Decision 2004/452/EC (3) has laid down a list of bodies whose researchers may access confidential data for scientific purposes.
            
         
               (3)
            
            
               The Canada Research Chair of the School of Social Science in the Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies at York University, Ontario, Canada, has to be regarded as a body fulfilling the required conditions and should therefore 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 in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee on Statistical Confidentiality,
            
         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, 25 June 2007.
      
         
            For the Commission
         
         Joaquín ALMUNIA
         
         
            Member of the Commission
         
      
   
   
      (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, as corrected by OJ L 202, 7.6.2004, p. 1. Decision as last amended by Decision 2007/229/EC (OJ L 99, 14.4.2007, p. 11).
   
      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 Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
            Canada Research Chair of the School of Social Science in the Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies at York University, Ontario, Canada.’