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# Art. 63 — Confidentiality

CRA Article 63 — Confidentiality. Regulation (EU) 2024/2847, Chapter VII — Confidentiality and penalties.

1. All parties involved in the application of this Regulation shall respect the confidentiality of information and data obtained in carrying out their tasks and activities in such a manner as to protect, in particular:
   1. intellectual property rights and confidential business information or trade secrets of a natural or legal person, including source code, except the cases referred to in Article 5 of Directive (EU) 2016/943 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
   2. the effective implementation of this Regulation, in particular for the purposes of inspections, investigations or audits;
   3. public and national security interests;
   4. integrity of criminal or administrative proceedings.
2. Without prejudice to paragraph 1, information exchanged on a confidential basis between the market surveillance authorities and between market surveillance authorities and the Commission shall not be disclosed without the prior agreement of the originating [market surveillance authority](https://headlesslaw.com/definitions/cra/market-surveillance-authority/).
3. Paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not affect the rights and obligations of the Commission, Member States and notified bodies with regard to the exchange of information and the dissemination of warnings, nor the obligations of the persons concerned to provide information under criminal law of the Member States.
4. The Commission and Member States may exchange, where necessary, sensitive information with relevant authorities of third countries with which they have concluded bilateral or multilateral confidentiality arrangements guaranteeing an adequate level of protection.


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