Commission Regulation (EU) No 557/2013Show full title

Article 2 Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply:

(1)

‘confidential data for scientific purposes’ means data which only allow for indirect identification of the statistical units, taking the form of either secure-use files or scientific-use files;

(2)

‘secure-use files’ means confidential data for scientific purposes to which no further methods of statistical disclosure control have been applied;

(3)

‘scientific-use files’ means confidential data for scientific purposes to which methods of statistical disclosure control have been applied to reduce to an appropriate level and in accordance with current best practice the risk of identification of the statistical unit;

(4)

‘statistical disclosure control methods’ means methods to reduce the risk of disclosing information on the statistical units, usually based on restricting the amount of, or modifying, the data released;

(5)

‘access facilities’ means the physical or virtual environment and its organisational setting where access to confidential data for scientific purposes is provided;

(6)

‘national statistical authorities’ means the national statistical institutes and other national authorities responsible in each Member State for the development, production and dissemination of European statistics as designated in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 223/2009.