1. Member States shall ensure that a credit institution provides a prospective credit purchaser with necessary information regarding a creditor’s rights under a non-performing credit agreement, or the non-performing credit agreement itself, and, if applicable, the collateral, so as to enable the prospective credit purchaser to conduct its own assessment of the value of the creditor’s rights under the non-performing credit agreement, or of the non-performing credit agreement itself, and the likelihood of recovery of the value of that agreement prior to entering into a contract for the transfer of that creditor’s rights under the non-performing credit agreement, or of the non-performing credit agreement itself, while ensuring the protection of information made available by the credit institution and of the confidentiality of business data.