The following data sets containing confidential information are included in the data quality management process of the Union register of multinational enterprise groups and their constituent units (hereinafter referred to as ‘EuroGroups register’):

data set with results of the linkage process, data sets with information on legal units, data sets with information on control and ownership of units, data sets with information on enterprises, data sets with information on global enterprise groups, data sets with information on truncated enterprise groups.

A data set with the results on the truncated and global enterprise groups is generated at the end of each EuroGroups register data quality management cycle.

The applicable format of those data sets is the one laid down in Regulation (EC) No 192/2009 for transmissions between the Commission (Eurostat) and the appropriate national authorities.

To ensure that a given Member State receives consistent data records, the Commission (Eurostat) shall apply identical naming conventions, structures, and definition of fields for data sets transmitted to appropriate national authorities and for data sets transmitted to national central banks and the European Central Bank.

To improve the quality of multinational enterprise group information in the European Union, and subject to the necessary authorisations the appropriate national authority shall assess the corrections and completions in the data sets they may have received from the national central banks and integrate them, where necessary, in the data they transmit to the Commission (Eurostat) pursuant to Article 11 of Regulation (EC) No 177/2008.

Data marked as confidential by national central banks or the European Central Bank shall be treated confidentially by the Commission (Eurostat) and the appropriate national authorities.

The Commission (Eurostat) may, with the explicit approval of the appropriate national authority and for statistical purposes only, transmit to the national central banks and the European Central Bank the following characteristics, including confidentiality flags, concerning multinational enterprise groups and their constituent units provided that, in the case of data transmitted to a national central bank, at least one unit of the group is located in the territory of that Member State.