Article 2 Confidentiality measures

The characteristics specified in part B of the Annex, including confidentiality flags, may be transmitted, for statistical purposes only, by the Commission (Eurostat) to the national central banks and the European Central Bank, provided that the transmission is explicitly authorised by the appropriate national authority and that, in the case of data transmitted to a national central bank, at least one unit of a multinational enterprise group is located in the territory of the Member State of that national central bank.