Article 20 Information to the public

1.   Member States shall make public the results generated by the monitoring of soil health carried out under Article 9 and the soil health assessments carried out in accordance with Article 10 in the form of aggregated data, and make public the register referred to in Article 17.

2.   The Commission shall ensure that the public has access to the digital soil health data portal.

The Commission shall publish the list of the competent authorities as communicated by Member States in accordance with Article 19(4), point (b).

3.   Disclosure of any data and information required under this Directive may be refused or restricted where the conditions laid down in Article 4 of Directive 2003/4/EC are fulfilled.

4.   Where the Commission or Member States use confidential data to produce European statistics, they shall protect such data in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 223/2009.

The Commission or the EEA shall be required to obtain the explicit authorisation of the authority that collected the confidential data before their disclosure.