information that is subject to sollicitor-client privilege

protected/solicitor-client privilege

Article 339 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union provides that the Members of the institutions of the Union shall be required, even after their duties have ceased, not to disclose information of any kind covered by the obligation of professional secrecy, in particular information about undertakings, their business relations or their cost components.

1. Without prejudice to the exchange and to the use of information foreseen in Article 3, an infringement procedure shall be carried out subject to the principles of confidentiality and of professional secrecy.

The Agency and the Commission, their officials, servants and other persons working under their supervision shall not disclose information acquired or exchanged by them pursuant to this Regulation and of the kind covered by the obligation of professional secrecy and confidentiality.

9. Points out that the section of the Regulation establishing a Community control system for ensuring compliance with the rules of the CFP which deals with fisheries data and information contains articles geared specifically to the protection of personal data and the confidentiality of professional and commercial secrecy; stresses further that the above Regulation explicitly states that fisheries data whose collection, exchange and disclosure would undermine the protection of the privacy and integrity of the individual or the commercial interests of a natural or legal person, including intellectual property, are subject to the applicabl ...[+++]e rules on confidentiality and professional and commercial secrecy;