Information for statistical purposes
Article 27
1. The Member States shall communicate the information referred to in Annex III to the Commission for the purposes of Article 21(8) and Article 22(2) and for use by the Member States and the Commission in policy making. 2. That information shall be made available by Member States to the Commission on a yearly basis and in electronic format and shall include information registered until 31 December of the previous year. Member States shall retain all property rights to the information in its raw data format. Processed statistics drawn up on the basis of such information shall be made publicly available in accordance with the provisions on transparency and protection of information set out in Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1406/2002. 3. In order to ensure the protection of personal data, Member States shall anonymise all personal information as indicated in Annex III by using software provided or accepted by the Commission before transmitting it to the Commission. The Commission shall only use that anonymised information. 4. Member States and the Commission shall ensure that measures for collecting, submitting, storing, analysing and disseminating such information are designed in such a way that statistical analysis is made possible. For the purposes of the first subparagraph, the Commission shall adopt detailed measures regarding the technical requirements necessary to ensure the appropriate management of the statistical data. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 31(2).