On the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on European statistics on population and housing, amending Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 and repealing Regulations (EC) No 763/2008 and (EU) No 1260/2013
LIBE-AD-749075
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs · Rapporteur: Yana Toom
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The committee opinion proposes amendments to the proposed regulation on European statistics on population and housing, focusing on improving coverage of hard-to-reach groups and ensuring data protection.¶¶ It calls for enhanced access to administrative and privately held data, with safeguards, and for data sharing mechanisms using privacy-enhancing technologies.¶¶¶ It defines 'hard-to-reach population groups' and empowers the Commission to list data sources via delegated acts, with restrictions on collecting sensitive data.¶¶
Committee position. The Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs proposes amendments to improve coverage of vulnerable groups, ensure data protection, and refine data sharing and delegated acts.¶
Key points
- Calls for statistics to cover hard-to-reach groups such as homeless people and those in informal settings, and to improve coverage of minorities, homeless people, and people with disabilities.¶¶
- Supports the use of new data sources and experimentation with new techniques, but insists on full compliance with EU data protection legislation.¶
- Requires the Commission to establish a list of types of privately held data sources that may be used, with safeguards to ensure proportionality.¶
- Reinforces data sharing for statistics on population and migration, including pilot projects, and mandates a secure infrastructure by the Commission.¶
- Mandates that data sharing mechanisms use privacy-enhancing technologies for transmitting personal data, and prefer anonymised data; pseudonymised only if necessary.¶¶¶
- Adds a recital requiring full compliance with GDPR and EUDPR safeguards for statistical processing.¶
- Empowers the Commission to adopt delegated acts to list data sources, at least 12 months before use, and prohibits requiring direct collection from individuals or collecting special categories of personal data.¶
- Amends objectives to avoid risks of double counting and ensure better comparability of migration flows.¶¶
- Replaces the definition of 'citizenship' to align with the new regulation.¶
Who is affected
- National statistical institutes and other authorities: must access and use administrative and privately held data, with safeguards.¶¶
- Hard-to-reach groups (homeless, minorities, people with disabilities): aim for better inclusion in statistics.¶¶
- Data holders: their data may be used, but with a list and safeguards established by the Commission.¶
Figures and deadlines
- Delegated acts to be adopted at least 12 months before the beginning of the use of the relevant data sources.¶