Recital (8) · Regulation (EU) 2024/3018

(8)Recent events such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the energy and cost-of-living crisis triggered by the Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine demonstrated that the availability of timely, reliable and comparable European statistics is vital to the effectiveness of public authorities’ response to emergency situations. Therefore, it should be possible for the ESS to swiftly initiate coordinated actions if urgent data and statistics needs arise outside the regular planning framework, especially in times of crisis recognised by Union legal acts, such as Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/1993^note, Decision No 1313/2013/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council^note, Council Regulation (EU) 2016/369^note, Council Regulation (EU) 2022/2372^note and a Regulation establishing a framework of measures related to an internal market emergency and to the resilience of the internal market (Internal Market Emergency and Resilience Act). In such a situation, a data holder should, upon request, make data available to an NSI or the Commission (Eurostat) where that NSI or the Commission (Eurostat) demonstrates an exceptional need to use the data requested, in accordance with the rules laid down in Regulation (EU) 2023/2854 of the European Parliament and of the Council^note. The Commission (Eurostat) should be able to undertake urgent statistical actions in close cooperation with the European Statistical System Committee (ESS Committee). NSIs and other national authorities responsible for the development, production and dissemination of European statistics (‘other national authorities’) should be able to participate in such actions on a voluntary basis.

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data
means any digital or non-digital representation of acts, facts or information and any compilation of such acts, facts or information on the units observed;
data access
means the processing by a national statistical institute or other national authorities or by the Commission (Eurostat) of data that have been provided or made available by a data holder, in accordance with specific technical, legal or organisational requirements;’
data holder
means a legal or natural person or any other entity that has the right, in accordance with applicable Union or national law, and the ability to manage and make available data obtained as a result of their activity;’
data source
means a source providing data that is relevant and necessary, in itself or in combination with data from other sources, for the development and production of statistics, including surveys, censuses, administrative data or data made available by data holders on request;
metadata
means any information that defines and describes data and processes;
use for statistical purposes
means the exclusive use for the development, production and dissemination of statistical results and analyses by statistical authorities, including for research and scientific activities, or the establishment of sampling frames;’