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General Statistical Aspects

89/382/EEC, Euratom: Council Decision of 19 June 1989 establishing a Committee on the Statistical Programme of the European Communities.

Council Regulation (EEC) No 1588/90 (links to Europa website) of 11 June 1990 on the transmission of data subject to statistical confidentiality to the Statistical Office of the European communities.

Council Regulation (EC) No. 696/93 (links to Europa website) of 15 March 1993 on the statistical units for the observation and analysis of the production system in the Community

Council Directive 95/46/EC (links to Europa website) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data

Council Regulation (EC) No. 322/97 (links to Europa website) of 17 February 1997 on Community statistics ("EU Statistics Act")

Decision No 1608/2003/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (links to Europa website) of 22 July 2003 concerning the production and development of Community statistics on science and technology (Text with EEA relevance)

Decision No 456/2005/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (links to Europa website) of 9 March 2005 establishing a multiannual Community programme to make digital content in Europe more accessible, usable and exploitable (Text with EEA relevance)

Regulation (EC) No 1552/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council (links to Europa website) of 7 September 2005 on statistics relating to vocational training in enterprises (Text with EEA relevance)

Decision No 1578/2007/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (links to Europa website) of 11 December 2007 on the Community Statistical Programme 2008 to 2012 (Text with EEA relevance)

Decision No 234/2008/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2008 establishing the European Statistical Advisory Committee and repealing Council Decision 91/116/EEC (Text with EEA relevance)