LAO PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
PEACE INDEPENDENCE DEMOCRACY UNITY PROSPERITY
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Prime Minister's Office No. 140 /PM
Decree
On Organization and Activities of the National Statistical System
-In reference to the Law on the Government of the Lao PDR No. 01/95, dated 8/3/95,
-In reference to the proposal made by the Committee for Planning and Cooperation,
-In reference to the agreement reached in the Government cabinet meeting held on 26/06/2002.
The Prime Minister hereby decrees
PART IV
Statistical Confidentiality and Disciplinary Actions Against Those Who Breach the National Statistical System
Article 12: Maintaining confidentiality
Data collected by a statistical organization are confidential. All data will be disseminated at the aggregate level. Statistics users have no rights to access to specific data for any respondent unit. These data will not be used for of authoritative administration purposes or other purposes other than statistical purposes. Data of any individual, enterprise, business unit or department will neither be disseminated to other individual nor used as a material evidence against respondent in any possible legal action. To ensure the confidentiality, statistics and reports received from various state enterprises, joint-venture business units, domestic and foreign private firms and households in compliance with the liabilities to do the reporting as specified in the Article 10 and Article 11 of this Decree will have no legitimate validity if to be used as references in an investigation of business operations or in the calculation of taxes of individuals, enterprises, departments or business units that supplied these data.
Article 13: Disciplinary Actions Against Those Who Breach the National Statistical System
Line ministries, ministry-equivalent agencies, organizations, provinces, municipality, Special Zone, districts, and villages, state enterprises, Joint-venture business units, domestic and foreign private firms, households and individuals that do not comply with the statistical system such as:
1. Intentionally prepare a false report that does not reflect the real situation;
2. Do not submit reports on time according to the specified reporting schedule;
3. Deliberately or carelessly disclose classified information;
4. Do not follow principles and liabilities specified in Part III of this Decree;
will be prosecuted in accordance with the Criminal Law of Lao PDR.
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