Article 16

1. In order to reduce the burden on respondents, and subject to paragraph 2, the national authorities and the Community authority shall have access to administrative data sources, each in the fields of activity of their own public administrations, to the extent that these data are necessary for the production of Community statistics. 2. The practical arrangements and the limits and conditions for achieving effective access shall be determined where necessary by each Member State and the Commission in their respective spheres of competence. 3. The use of confidential data obtained from administrative or other sources by the national authorities or by the Community authority for the production of Community statistics does not affect the use of the data for the purposes for which they were originally collected.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-07 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.