Article 32. Ensuring information security

Producers of official statistics shall provide all regulatory, administrative, technical, and organizational measures to protect individual data and confidential generalized indicators and prevent their disclosure.

Employees of producers of official statistics, including temporarily hired employees, who have direct access to individual data shall be obliged to keep this data confidential during their activities and after their termination in the respective position.

Producers of official statistics may process and store individual data with identifiers for as long as necessary for statistical purposes in accordance with the procedure established by them.

An identifier can provide direct identification, that is, the identification of a single statistical unit based on a single identifier or a combination of identifiers.

The identification of the statistical unit can also be detected indirectly through other additional data.

All individual data collection forms with identifiers, including electronic ones, must be destroyed as soon as they are no longer needed for statistical purposes.