The Committee’s activities will be communicated to all employees,with the exception of information provided to members on aconfidential and private basis.Consequently, as one of the Committee’s objectives is the freeexchange of views in an open, frank and fully informative context,all Committee members undertake not to disclose any informationprovided to them in confidence relating to product and/or marketstrategies which could in any way benefit competitors; thisobligation shall not cease upon theconclusion of their participation in theCommittee.

The obligation to maintain secrecy shall not apply towards employee representationbodies if, according to national legislation, the latter are obliged to maintain secrecy

The members of the EWC and their deputy members shall be obliged not to pass onany business secrets to a third party, if information was disclosed to them in the courseof their term of office in the EWC which the employer's side explicitly declared asconfidential. This shall also apply after they have left the EWC. Any expert consulted bythe EWC shall also be obliged to maintain secrecy in the same way. There shall be nosecrecy within the EWC