Article 2
1. The statistical information stored in the Tabular Data Bank (BDT) shall not be made available to users before the Statistical Office of the European Communities, in conjunction with the Member States, has established that it complies with the criteria and rules governing statistical confidentiality and reliability to be established jointly with the Member States. 2. The tables mentioned in Article 1 and the ad hoc tables defined in point 15 of Annex II to Regulation (EEC) No 571/88 shall be stored initially in a special field of the Tabular Data Bank (BDT), access to which is restricted to the Statistical Office of the European Communities and the statistical services of the Member States for the tables concerning their own countries. 3. The ad hoc tables, for which the competent services of the Member States have ensured the confidentiality and statistical reliability, can be also introduced into the Tabular Data Bank (BDT) if they are of general interest.