Section 2

Definitions

For the purposes of this Act,

a) individual data shall mean data relating to individual legal or natural persons and acquired for statistical purposes pursuant to this Act,

b) confidential statistical data shall mean data, which allow direct or indirect identification of individual legal persons, or data, which are personal data on natural persons according to a special act,

c) anonymous data shall mean individual data which do not allow, in their original form or after processing, direct or indirect identification of an individual legal or natural person,

d) direct identification shall mean identification of an individual legal or natural person on the basis of any identifier that can be used without the necessity of spending unreasonable time and effort,

e) indirect identification shall mean a possibility of deducing identification of an individual legal or natural person in a way other than mentioned under d),

f) statistical information shall mean social, economic, demographic, or environmental information aggregated from individual data,

g) statistical purpose is the use for numerical, textual, or graphic description of mass phenomena and processes in the society, the national economy, and in the environment by means of statistical information,

h) statistical survey shall mean the acquisition of data from reporting units for statistical purposes pursuant to this Act,

i) reporting unit shall mean a legal person, a government department, or a natural person, from which data for a Statistical Survey are required pursuant to this Act,

j) reporting duty shall mean the duty of reporting units to provide required individual statistical data timely, completely, correctly and truly for the Statistical Surveys mentioned in the Programme of Statistical Surveys,

k) business shall mean every legal person, government department, that is an accounting entity, mutual fund and, furthermore, a natural person, who is an entrepreneur pursuant to a special regulation,

l) business identification number (hereinafter as “the identification number”) shall mean a numerical code used to identify a respective business,

m) place of business identification number shall mean a numerical code serving to identify the place of a business, which performs activities as determined in the Trade Act;

n) identification code of an internal unit shall mean a numerical code, which identifies the internal unit,

o) internal unit shall mean a statistical unit, which allows a business to be broken down by territory (a local unit) or by activity (a kind-of-activity unit); the local unit and the kind-of activity unit are established according to regulations of the European Communities concerning statistical registers,

p) agricultural activity shall mean agricultural crop and animal production including market vegetable growing, horticulture, apiculture, fishing, breed of fur and other animals, further game hunting and trapping, related agricultural primary production, forestry and logging, as well as related service activities,

q) protection of confidential statistical data shall mean a whole system of measures and tools, which ensure confidential data from statistical surveys performed by the State Statistical Service and data from administrative sources which prevents them from being changed, destructed, lost, transmitted or otherwise misused in an unauthorised way and allows them to be used only for statistical purposes; also compound data embracing more legal or natural persons which allow identification of the data subject without the necessity of spending unreasonable time and effort are subject to this protection,

r) place of usual residence of a foreigner shall mean the address of residence stated in the residence permit if he/she is a foreigner with a residence permit or temporary residence permit or a foreigner staying in the Czech Republic on the basis of a long-term visa under a special Act; a place of usual residence of a foreigner who has been granted asylum under a special Act is the address of residence stated on the card of residence permit of the asylum seeker,

s) statistical districts shall mean the smallest territorial units, which form cadastral territories, and basic settlement units, whose network covers the whole territory of the Czech Republic, that are used for detailed description of territories and establishment of statistical zones,

t) basic settlement unit shall mean a unit representing parts of the territory of a municipality with unambiguous territorial technical and urbanistic conditions or of adjoining territories of groups of residential or recreational buildings,

u) territorial technical unit shall mean a unit defined as a cadastral territory or a thereof separated by the border of a basic settlement unit, i.e. by the border of a municipality, city district, or city part,

v) basic territorial unit shall mean the territory of a municipality or the territory of a military district and, in case the municipality is further divided, the territory of a city district or the territory of a city part, and

w) general government sector shall mean government departments and units, self-governing territorial units, state and other extra-budgetary funds, public universities, health insurance companies and other organisations classified to this sector by the Czech Statistical Office.