Article 9

Article 9

1.   The information communicated pursuant to Article 4 and the information provided for in Article 7 shall be confidential. This provision shall not, however, prevent the distribution of information in a form which does not disclose details relating to individual undertakings, i. e. which refers to at least three undertakings.

2.   The information forwarded to the Commission on the basis of Article 7 and the communications referred to in Article 8 (1) can only be used for the purposes of Article 8 (2).

3.   If the Commission discovers, in the information communicated to it by the Member States in accordance with Article 7, the existence of anomalies or inconsistencies which prevent it from obtaining a true picture of developments in the conditions under which imports and deliveries have taken place, it may ask the Member States to allow it access to the relevant unaggregated information provided by the undertakings and the calculation and assessment procedures used to arrive at the aggregated information.