Article 5
The competent national authorities in Member States shall transmit the results on the characteristics referred to in Article 3 of this Regulation, including confidential data, to the Commission (Eurostat) in accordance with the existing Community provisions on transmission of data subject to statistical confidentiality, in particular Council Regulation (Euratom, EEC) No 1588/90 of 11 June 1990 on the transmission of data subject to statistical confidentiality to the Statistical Office of the European Communities ( 3 ) . Those Community provisions shall apply to the treatment of the results, insofar as they include confidential data. The data shall be transmitted in electronic form. The transmission format shall be in conformity with the interchange standards specified by the Commission (Eurostat). Data shall be transmitted or uploaded by electronic means to the single entry point for data, maintained by the Commission (Eurostat).