
Article 1 
Regulation (EC) No 831/2002 is amended as follows:

1.. In Article 3, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:
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1. Access to confidential data may be granted by the Community authority to researchers of bodies falling within any of the following categories:
(a) universities and other higher education organisations established under Community law or by the law of a Member State;
(b) organisations or institutions for scientific research established under Community law or under the law of a Member State;
(c) national statistical institutes of the Member States;
(d) the European Central Bank and the national central banks of the Member States;
(e) other agencies, organisations and institutions, after having received the opinion of the Committee on Statistical Confidentiality, in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 20(2) of Regulation (EC) No 322/97.'
2.. In Article 5, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:
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1. The Community authority may grant access on its premises to confidential data obtained from the following surveys or statistical data sources:
— European Community Household Panel,
— Labour Force Survey,
— Community Innovation Survey,
— Continuing Vocational Training Survey,
— Structure of Earnings Survey,
— European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions,
— Adult Education Survey.However, on the request of the national authority which provided the data, access to data from that national authority shall not be granted for a specific research project.'
3.. In Article 6, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:
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1. The Community authority may release sets of anonymised microdata obtained from the following surveys or statistical data sources:
— European Community Household Panel,
— Labour Force Survey,
— Community Innovation Survey,
— Continuing Vocational Training Survey,
— Structure of Earnings Survey,
— European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions,
— Adult Education Survey.However, on the request of the national authority which provided the data, access to data from that national authority shall not be granted for a specific research project.'
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 29 August 2007.
For the Commission
Joaquín ALMUNIA
Member of the Commission