1. Item 4.1 Recent activities in confidentiality and micro data access
Aleksandra Bujnowska Eurostat

2. Modernisation of microdata access system*
On-line submission of microdata applications
On-line secure platform for scientific use files transmission
Research publications database
New modes of access to microdata
Public use files
Confidentiality on the fly

3. Statistical disclosure control (SDC)
Expert Group on SDC
Centre of Excellence on SDC
Framework Partnership Agreement on SDC
Specific grant agreements (4)

5. General Data Protection Regulation

6. National statistical offices
25 May 2018
Directive 95/46
GDPR

7. EU institutions
Directive 95/46
GDPR
Regulation 45/2001

8. GDPR: special rules for statistics
Further processing for statistical purpose possible
Data kept longer
No information obligation if data received indirectly
Special categories of data can be used for statistics
No right to erasure if this would render impossible or seriously impair the statistical objectives
No right to object if the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out for reasons of public interest.
Limit data subjects’ rights
Already in GDPR!

9. GDPR: special rules for statistics
Additional Derogations possible for Statistics:
Right of access,
Right to rectification,
Right to restriction of processing and
Right to object
Limit data subjects’ rights further
These rights may be further restricted by Union or Member State law, but only if the right is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of the specific statistical purpose and if such a derogation is necessary for the fulfilment of that purpose

10. The DGs of the NSIs and of Eurostat…
… recognized that in almost all Member States procedures have been initiated to enact derogations from the data subjects' rights referred to in some or all of the following Articles of the GDPR: 15 (access), 16 (rectification), 18 (restriction) and 21 (objection)*
* DGs informal workshop on the implications of the GDPR in European statistics 8 February 2018, Luxembourg

11. The WG is invited to:
share information on microdata activities at national level,
note the publication of the first European public use files and to support their production for further data sets
foster national implementation of the recommendations for a harmonised protection of the 2021 census round
provide feedback on the use of helpdesk services for the ESS statistical disclosure control tools

12. Thank you!