Source: OJ L, 2024/607, 16.2.2024

Article 10 Confidentiality

Summary What does Article 10 of the Information sharing system say?

Article 10 addresses confidentiality obligations within AGORA.

It establishes that existing confidentiality frameworks — whether at national or Union level — extend naturally into the AGORA environment, meaning no entirely new confidentiality regime is created.

It also introduces a reciprocal dimension, requiring each AGORA actor to honour confidentiality requests made by other AGORA actors, ensuring that the system operates on a basis of mutual trust.

Important points:

Each Member State and the Commission must apply their existing professional secrecy or confidentiality rules to their AGORA administrators and users.
Each AGORA actor is required to ensure that confidentiality requests from other AGORA actors are respected by the administrators and users under their authority.
Confidentiality obligations flow both internally, through national or Union law, and externally, through compliance with the requests of other AGORA actors.

Springlex's summary of the article is a reading aid, not a substitute for the legal text.

1. Each Member State and the Commission shall apply their own rules on professional secrecy or other equivalent duties of confidentiality to their AGORA administrators and AGORA users in accordance with national or Union law.
1. Each AGORA actor shall ensure that demands from other AGORA actors for confidential treatment of information exchanged in AGORA are complied with by AGORA administrators and AGORA users working under their authority.

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