L 90/22 Official Journal of the European Union 6.4.2011 COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 328/2011 of 5 April 2011 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1338/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on Community statistics on public health and health and safety at work, as regards statistics on causes of death (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 1338/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on Community statistics on public health and health and safety at work ('), and in particular Article 9(1) thereof, Whereas: (1) Regulation (EC) No 1338/2008 establishes a common framework for the systematic production of European statistics on public health and health and safety at work. (2)  Pursuant to Article 9(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1338/2008, implementing measures are needed to specify the data and metadata to be provided on causes of death covered by Annex IIl to that Regulation and to set the reference periods and intervals for providing this data. (3)  Confidential data sent by Member States to the Commission (Eurostat) should be handled in accordance with the principle of statistical confidentiality as laid down in Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on European statistics (}) and with Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2000 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by the Community institutions and bodies and on the free movement of such data (3). (4) A cost-benefit analysis has been carried out and evaluated in accordance with Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 1338/2008. (5)  The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the European Statistical System Committee, OJ L 354, 31.12.2008, p. 70. 2) OJ L 87, 31.3.2009, p. 164. OJ L 8 12.1.2001, p. 1. HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Atticle 1 Scope European statistics in the domain of ‘causes of death’ shall concern all registered deaths and stillbirths occurring in each Member State, distinguishing residents and non-residents. Article 2 Definitions For the purpose of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply: (a) ‘death’ means the permanent disappearance of all evidence of life at any time after live birth has taken place (post-natal cessation of vital functions without capability of resusci- tation). This definition excludes stillbirths; (b) ‘stillbirth’ means foetal death, namely death prior to the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy. Death is indicated by the fact that after such separation from its mother the foetus does not breathe or show any other evidence of life, such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles; (c) ‘gestational age’ means the duration of gestation, measured from the first day of the last normal menstrual period. Gestational age is expressed in completed days or completed weeks; (d) ‘neonatal death’ means the death occurring among live births during the first 28 completed days of life (days 0-27); (e) ‘parity means the number of previous live births or stillbirths (0, 1, 2, 3 or more previous live births or stillbirths); (f) ‘other deaths’ means the deaths occurring after the neonatal death period from the 28th completed day of life onwards;