27.11.2010 Official Journal of the European Union L 312/1 (Non-legislative acts) REGULATIONS COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1097/2010 of 26 November 2010 implementing Regulation (EC) No 177/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a common framework for business registers for statistical purposes, as regards the exchange of confidential data between the Commission (Eurostat) and central banks (Text with EEA relevance) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 177/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 February 2008 establishing a common framework for business registers for statistical purposes and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 2186/93 (1), and in particular Article 12 thereof, Whereas: (1) Regulation (EC) No 177/2008 establishes a new common framework for business registers exclusively for statistical purposes in order to maintain the development of business registers in a harmonised framework. (20 An exchange of confidential data between the Commission and national central banks, and between the Commission and the European Central Bank, exclusively for statistical purposes, should help ensure the quality of multinational enterprise group information in the European Union. It is therefore necessary to establish the format, the security and confidentiality measures and the procedure for the transmission of such confidential data to national central banks and the European Central Bank, to ensure that the data trans- mitted is used exclusively for statistical purposes. (3)  In accordance with Council Regulation (EC) No 2533/98 of 23 November 1998 concerning the collection of sta- tistical information by the European Central Bank (%), data that the ESCB members have received from ESS authorities should be used exclusively for statistical purposes. The ESCB members should also ensure the () O] L 61, 5.3.2008, p. 6. () O] L 318, 27.11.1998, p. 8. physical and logical protection of confidential statistical information provided by the ESS authorities. The ECB should publish annual confidentiality reports on the measures adopted to safeguard the confidentiality of this statistical information. (4)  To ensure consistency, the data sets transmitted in accordance with this Regulation should use the same naming conventions, structures, and definition of fields as referred to in Commission Regulation (EC) No 192/2009 of 11 March 2009 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1772008 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a common framework for business registers for statistical purposes, as regards the exchange of confidential data between the Commission (Eurostat) and Member States (?). (5)  The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the European Statistical System Committee, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Atrticle 1 Format 1.  The format set out in part A of the Annex shall be used for the data transmitted under Article 12(2) of Regulation (EC) No 177/2008. 2. The data and metadata shall be transmitted in accordance with the standards of the European Statistical System and with the structure defined in the most recent version of the Eurostat Business Registers Recommendations Manual available from the Commission (Eurostat). () O] L 67, 12.3.2009, p. 14.