Commission Decision

of 11 April 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) 1546)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2007/229/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 statistics1, 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 purposes2 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/EC3 has laid down a list of bodies whose researchers may access confidential data for scientific purposes.
(3)

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the Family and Labour Studies Division of Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, the Econometrics and Statistical Support to Antifraud (ESAF) Unit, Directorate-General Joint Research Centre of the European Commission and the Support to the European Research Area (SERA) Unit, Directorate-General Joint Research Centre of the European Commission have to be regarded as bodies 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: