Are individual data confidential?
Reply
Pursuant to Article 6 of Law No 22/2008 of 13 May, all individual statistical data collected by statistical authorities are confidential:
a)They cannot be supplied to any persons or entities and no certificate shall be issued thereon;
b)No service or authority shall order or authorise their examination;
c)They cannot be disclosed in a way that allows for the direct or indirect identification of the individuals and enterprises to which they refer;
d)They shall be covered by professional secrecy, even after termination of service, as regards all staff, agents or other persons who, on whatever ground, handle such data in the performance or by reason of their duties or functions related to official statistical activity.