Definition: Confidential statistical information

Category: EU legislation

Statistical information which allows reporting agents or any other legal or natural person, entity or branch to be identified, either directly from their name or address or from an officially allocated identification code, or indirectly through deduction, thereby disclosing individual information. To determine whether a reporting agent or any other legal or natural person, entity or branch is identifiable, account shall be taken of all the means that might reasonably be used by a third party to identify the said reporting agent or the other legal or natural person, entity or branch. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:269:0001:0006:EN:PDF