The Statistics Act is a special law for the provisions on personal information held by the Act on the Protection of Personal Information

Abstract

　This paper describes from three perspectives that the Statistics Act is a special law for the provisions on personal information held by the Act on the Protection of Personal Information. 　First, I pointed out that the Statistics Act has provisions that are demarcated from the Act on the Protection of Personal Information. Furthermore, I pointed out that the Statistics Act has provisions corresponding to the specific regulations for administrative organs, etc. under the Act on the Protection of Personal Information. 　Second, I pointed out that the Statistics Act and the Act on the Protection of Personal Information have interacted and undergone changes since the time of the former act. 　Third, I pointed out that the Statistic Act and Regulations have an agency equivalent to the Health Data Access Bodies, which is the core of secondary use in the European Health Data Space. That is, the National Statistics Center.