Section 9

The Use of Administrative Data Sources

1. Bodies performing the State Statistical Service use data acquired or collected by ministries and other administrative authorities under special regulations. Ministries and other administrative authorities are bound to provide them with the necessary data on their request in time and free of charge unless otherwise stated by this Act.
2. The Czech Statistical Office may require

a) from data obtained at administration of taxes, individual data from tax returns or statements and accounting statements of natural and legal persons, if they have been processed by bodies of the Financial Administration of the Czech Republic or bodies of the Customs Administration of the Czech Republic and are available in a central database in an electronic form, for the needs of compiling of national accounts pursuant to requirements of the European System of National and Regional Accounts in the European Communities, and for the needs of keeping of statistical registers and for the needs of population and housing censuses; provision of information under this provision is not a violation of confidentiality pursuant to the Tax Procedure Code,

b) data determined in a directly applicable regulation of the European Communities from data obtained in the customs procedure on releasing goods into a proposed customs regime,

c) data from data obtained at performing social security activities, as follows:

1) firm or name of business, in case of legal persons registered office, in the case of natural persons acting as businesses address of permanent residence and address of the place of business, if it differs from address of the permanent residence, and identification of person insured by social security insurance and the contribution to the state employment policy, which is a legal person, organizational units of government or an own-account worker; the identification shall mean the identification number, or in case of natural persons the birth number, if they have no identification number assigned or no identification number is registered at performance of social security,

2) headcount for which the employer is obliged to pay social security insurance and the contribution to the state employment policy.

3. For statistical purposes and the maintenance of statistical registers, bodies of self-governing territorial units shall provide the Czech Statistical Office with data from their own information systems upon request and free of charge. Ministries performing the State Statistical Service are entitled to require data for statistical purposes free of charge from bodies of self-governing territorial units only after prior consent given by the Czech Statistical Office.
4. The Czech Statistical Office uses individual data on entities classified to the general government sector for statistical purposes related to the calculations of deficit and debt, and for compilation of quarterly and annual non-financial and financial accounts of this sector as required by the European Communities.
5. Data provided to the Czech Statistical Office under paragraphs 1 to 3 shall be transmitted in a form not allowing direct identification of the natural or legal person concerned, unless the purpose the data are provided for is foiled.
6. Data and information systems serving different purposes may be aggregated for statistical purposes.
7. Ministries and other administrative authorities must inform the Czech Statistical Office on which data they have acquired under special acts or which they have collected already.