Commission Decision

of 6 November 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) 6431)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/876/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) Duke University (DUKE), North Carolina, USA 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)(e) 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, 6 November 2008.

For the Commission

Joaquín Almunia

Member of the Commission

[1] OJ L 52, 22.2.1997, p. 1.

[2] OJ L 133, 18.5.2002, p. 7.

[3] OJ L 156, 30.4.2004, p. 1, as corrected by OJ L 202, 7.6.2004, p. 1.

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ANNEX

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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

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, (El?keturvakeskus – ETK), Finland

Directorate for Research, Studies, Evaluation and Statistics (Direction de la recherche, des études, de l’évaluation et des statistiques – DREES) under the joint authority of the Ministry of Labour, Labour Relations and Solidarity, the Ministry of Health, Youth and Sports and the Ministry of the Budget, Public Accounts and the Civil Service, Paris, France

Duke University (DUKE), North Carolina, USA"

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