ANNEX
Article 4
Exceptions
The institutions shall refuse access to documents
where disclosure could seriously undermine the protection of:
a) the public interest and in particular:
- public security,
- defence and international relations,
- relations between and/or with the Member States or Community
and non-Community institutions,
- financial or economic interests,
- monetary stability,
- the stability of the Community legal order,
- court proceedings,
- inspections, investigations and audits,
- infringement proceedings, including the preparatory stages
thereof,
- the effective functioning of the institutions;
b) privacy and the individual and in particular:
- personal files,
- information, opinions and assessments given in confidence
with a view to recruitments or appointments,
- an individual's personal details or documents containing
information such as medical secrets which, if disclosed, might
constitute an infringement of privacy or facilitate such an infringement;
c) commercial and industrial secrecy or the economic
interests of a specific natural or legal person and in particular:
- business and commercial
secrets,
- intellectual and industrial property,
- industrial, financial, banking and commercial information,
including information relating to business relations or contracts,
- information on costs and tenders following award procedures;
d) confidentiality as requested by the third
party that supplied the document or the information or as required
by the legislation of the Member State.
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