Prodcom ESTP course 15-16 October 2013 Confidentiality 15-16 October 2013, Luxembourg 4-Confidentiality Prodcom ESTP course 15-16 October 2013

National confidentiality Data is declared confidential by reporting countries: When too few enterprises (typically 1, 2 or 3) report production of the heading When one or two enterprises have a dominant share (typically > 85%) of national production 4-Confidentiality Prodcom ESTP course 15-16 October 2013

National confidentiality Confidential data must be reported to Eurostat. It is entirely up to the reporting country to decide which data should be marked confidential (passive confidentiality: FI & HR) Eurostat accepts the confidential flags as they are set by countries All national confidential items are suppressed from the published national data in European datasets (marked with :C flag) 4-Confidentiality Prodcom ESTP course 15-16 October 2013

Confidentiality in EU aggregates EU totals containing confidential data may only be published if the original confidential items cannot be derived from the total. A set of rules for evaluating each case have been agreed with the Member States, taking into account the number of confidential countries, the number of producing enterprises in each one and the possibility of dominance. 4-Confidentiality Prodcom ESTP course 15-16 October 2013

Confidentiality in EU aggregates Rule 1: If there is no dominance, the EU total may be published if 3 or more countries are confidential. MS1 MS2 MS3 MS4 EU AGG :C 10 15 12 13 50 MS1 MS2 MS3 MS4 MS5 EU AGG :C 10 15 5 12 13 55 60 :R 4-Confidentiality Prodcom ESTP course 15-16 October 2013

Confidentiality in EU aggregates Rule 2: If there is no dominance, the EU total may be published if 2 countries are confidential, as long as there are at least 3 units in total in the two countries. 4-Confidentiality Prodcom ESTP course 15-16 October 2013

Confidentiality in EU aggregates Rule 3: The EU total may be published if no enterprise exceeds its country’s dominance threshold within the confidential cluster. 4-Confidentiality Prodcom ESTP course 15-16 October 2013

Implication on EU aggregates The dominance threshold is set individually according to the wishes of each Member State. Countries may choose a dominance threshold in the range 85% to 100% (ex: IT 95%, LT 90%) This is based on the assumption that only the dominant country is affected if the EU total is published. 4-Confidentiality Prodcom ESTP course 15-16 October 2013

Prodcom ESTP course 15-16 October 2013 Rounding of EU Totals EU real total are not publish when too few confidential countries dominance of one confidential country Eurostat applies rounding to it. This allows the approximate value to be published, without being so precise that the confidential data is revealed. 4-Confidentiality Prodcom ESTP course 15-16 October 2013

Confidentiality charter Member States commit themselves not to subsequently disseminate national data previously indicated to Eurostat as being confidential. 4-Confidentiality Prodcom ESTP course 15-16 October 2013