Commission Decision

of 1 July 2010

amending Decision 2004/452/EC laying down a list of bodies whose researchers may access confidential data for scientific purposes

(notified under document C(2010) 4385)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2010/373/EU)

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on European statistics [1] and in particular Article 23 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) Sabanci University, Tuzla/Istanbul, Turkey, McGill University, Montreal, Canada and Directorate Economic Service and Structural Reforms, Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs 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)(e) of Regulation (EC) No 831/2002.

(4) The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the European Statistical System Committee (ESS Committee),

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, 1 July 2010.

For the Commission

Olli Rehn

Member of the Commission

[1] OJ L 87, 31.3.2009, p. 164.

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

[3] OJ L 156, 30.4.2004, 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

Tel Aviv University (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, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission

Support to the European Research Area (SERA) Unit, 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 ?tudes 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, Assessment, and Statistics (Direction de la Recherche, des ?tudes, de l’?valuation et des Statistiques – DREES) in the Ministry of Labour, social dialogue and solidarity, the Ministry of Health, youth and sports and the Ministry of Budget, public accounts and state reform, Paris, France

Duke University (DUKE), North Carolina, USA

Social Insurance Institution of Finland (Kansanel?kelaitos – KELA), Finland

Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel

Federal Public Service Social Security, Belgium

Sabanci University, Tuzla/Istanbul, Turkey

McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Directorate Economic Service and Structural Reforms, Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Commission"

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