For the purposes of this Regulation, the terms given below are defined as follows:
confidential statistical data: data defined in Article 13 of Council Regulation (EC) No 322/97 of 17 February 1997 on Community statistics 6;
national authorities: national statistical institutes and other national bodies responsible for the collection and use of statistics for the Communities;
information on the private lives of natural persons: information on the private and family lives of natural persons as defined by national legislation or practices in the various Member States;
use for statistical purposes: use exclusively for the compilation of statistical tables or for statistical economic analyses; may not be used for administrative, legal or tax purposes or for verification against the units surveyed;
statistical unit: basic unit covered by statistical data transmitted to Eurostat;
direct identification: identification of a statistical unit from its name or address, or from an officially allocated and published identification number;
indirect identification: possibility of deducing the identity of a statistical unit other than from the information mentioned in point (f);
officials of Eurostat: officials of the Communities, within the meaning of Article 1 of the Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Communities, working at Eurostat;
other staff of Eurostat: servants of the Communities, within the meaning of Articles 2 to 5 of the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Communities, working at Eurostat;
dissemination: supply of data in any form whatever: publications, access to databases, microfiches, telephone communications, etc.