The Feeding Stuffs (Wales) Regulations 2006

Confidential Information provisions

21.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), no person may publish or disclose any confidential information that was, prior to the coming into force of these Regulations, obtained by that person in the performance of functions under regulation 11 of the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 2000 (“Rheoliadau Porthiant 2000”) without the previous consent in writing of—

(a) the person who, in accordance with that regulation, made an application for a Community authorisation of, or as the case may be, for a new use of, the additive concerned, or

(b) that person’s assignee or successor to ownership of the confidential information.

(2) Nothing in paragraph (1) restricts the publication or disclosure of such information for the purpose of the exercise of functions under that regulation.

(3) Nothing in paragraph (1) prevents the publication or disclosure of confidential information of a type specified in Article 7(2) of the Additives Directive.

(4) In this regulation, “confidential information”(“gwybodaeth gyfrinachol”) means information of the type specified in Article 7(1) of the Additives Directive and “additive” (“ychwanegyn”) has the meaning given in Article 2 of that Directive.

(5) A publication or disclosure in contravention of paragraph (1) will be punishable as if it were a disclosure prohibited by section 83 of the Act.