
Article 1 
Regulation (EC) No 577/98 is hereby amended as follows:

1)) in Article 4(1), point (l) shall be replaced by the following:
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((l)) wages from the main job;'
2)) Article 6 shall be replaced by the following:
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Article 6 
Within twelve weeks of the end of the reference period, the Member States shall forward to Eurostat the results of the survey, without direct identifiers.
Where administrative data are used to supply data corresponding to the survey characteristic “wages from the main job”, that data may be forwarded to Eurostat within twenty-one months of the end of the reference period.'
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of 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 Strasbourg, 23 October 2007.
For the European Parliament
The President
H.-G. PÖTTERING
For the Council
The President
M. LOBO ANTUNES