CHAPTER 4

Cooperation, professional secrecy and data protection

Professional secrecy
Article 27
1
Any confidential information received, exchanged or transmitted pursuant to this Regulation shall be subject to the conditions of professional secrecy laid down in paragraphs 2 and 3.
2
All the information exchanged between the FCA and competent authorities under this Regulation that concerns business or operational conditions and other economic or personal affairs shall be considered to be confidential and shall be subject to the requirements of professional secrecy, except where the authority from whom the information is received states at the time of communication that such information may be disclosed or such disclosure is necessary for legal proceedings.
3
The obligation of professional secrecy applies to all persons who work or who have worked for the FCA or for any authority or market undertaking to whom the FCA has delegated its powers, including auditors and experts contracted by the FCA. Information covered by professional secrecy may not be disclosed to any other person or authority except by virtue of provisions laid down by the law of the United Kingdom, or any part of the United Kingdom.
Words in Art. 27(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Market Abuse (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/310), regs. 1(3), 13(7)(a)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Words in Art. 27(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Market Abuse (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/310), regs. 1(3), 13(7)(a)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Words in Art. 27(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Market Abuse (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/310), regs. 1(3), 13(7)(b)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Words in Art. 27(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Market Abuse (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/310), regs. 1(3), 13(7)(b)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Ch. 4 heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The Market Abuse (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/310), regs. 1(3), 13(1); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)