§ 16 Secrecy and Confidential Statistical Data Protection

 
(1) Employees of authorities carrying out the State Statistical Service or persons processing Statistical Surveys or collecting data for Agricultural Censuses shall be subject to secrecy of confidential data they have knowledge of. To this end, they must be sworn to secrecy upon entering their employment or before they start the relevant work.
 
(2) The wording of the pledge to secrecy: “I promise upon my honour that I shall not make public, communicate to anyone or allow anyone to have knowledge of confidential statistical data acquired for statistical purposes I shall become familiar with in compliance with Act No 89/1995 Sb. on the State Statistical Service, as amended, and that I shall use these individual data only for relevant purposes.” These persons are sworn to secrecy by the respective Head of the Ministry, head of the administrative authority or by a person authorised by him.
 
(3) The person is sworn after saying "I do promise" when they hear the wording and sign the relevant document. The document must include the date when the person was sworn. 
 
(4) Providing or making a confidential statistical datum public under § 17 of this Act is not considered as the breach of secrecy.
 
(5)  The subjection to secrecy shall last even following the termination of the employment or relevant work.
 
(6) Authorities performing the State Statistical Service must not give any opportu­ni­ty to get familiar with confidential statistical data to persons not sworn to secrecy.

• § 17 Provision of Confidential Statistical Data