The competent authority of a Member State shall require that confidential information communicated by it to a competent authority of a third country may be disclosed by that competent authority to third parties or authorities only with the prior express agreement of the competent authority which has transmitted the information, in accordance with its national law and provided that the information is disclosed only for the purposes for which that competent authority of the Member State has given its agreement, or where such disclosure is required by Union or national law or is necessary for legal proceedings in that third country.

4. Without prejudice to paragraph 6, when a contract concerning film production is concluded, individually or collectively, by performers with a film producer, the performer covered by this contract shall be presumed, subject to contractual clauses to the contrary, to have transferred his rental right, subject to Article 5.

Except in cases where Article 143b is applied, the new Member States shall allocate individual ceilings to producers and shall set up the national reserves from the overall number of rights to the premium reserved for each of these new Member States as set out in paragraph 4, no later than one year after the date of accession.

Except in cases where Article 143b is applied, the new Member States shall allocate individual ceilings to producers and shall set up the national reserves from the overall number of rights to the premium reserved for each of these Member States as set out in paragraph 5, no later than one year after the date of accession.

The total of planting rights in Table 9 represents the sum of the new rights allocated to producers but not yet used, replanting rights held by the producers, new rights awaiting allocation to reserve (Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999) and existing rights in reserve.

IV. TOLLS AND USER CHARGES a) Member States may maintain or introduce tolls and/or user charges subject to the following conditions without prejudice to any regulatory charges specifically designed to combat time and place- related traffic congestion : - they may not both be imposed at the same time on a vehicle for the use of a single road section; - they may not discriminate, directly or indirectly, on the grounds of the nationality of the haulier or of origin or destination of traffic; - they do not lead to the introduction or maintenance of mandatory checks or controls at frontiers; - with the exceptions proposed in Article 4.2 of the Commission proposal, they may apply only to motorways or other multi-lane ...[+++]roads with characteristics similar to motorways and, subject to a Community procedure, also other motor traffic roads and other sections of the primary road network where there are in particular safety reasons for doing so ; in a Member State where no general network of motorways or dual carriageways with similar characteristics exists, tolls or charges may apply to the highest category of road in that State; - a Member State may provide that vehicles registered in that State shall pay a user charge for the use of the whole road network in its territory.