CHAPTER IIIUSE OF DATA

Article 16Processing of primary data

1

Member States shall process the primary data into sets of detailed or aggregated data in accordance with:

a

relevant international standards, where applicable;

b

protocols agreed at international or regional level, where applicable.

2

The Member State shall provide to the end-users of scientific data and the Commission, whenever necessary, a description of the methods applied to process the requested data and their statistical properties.