# Decision of the President of the European Commission of 29 February 2012 on the function and terms of reference of the hearing officer in certain trade proceedings (2012/199/EU), Article 15: Access to information confidential by nature, not susceptible to summary information

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

At the request of an interested party the hearing officer can examine information that is confidential by nature and not susceptible to summary, to which that party has no access, in order to verify how that information was used by the Commission services responsible for the investigation.
The hearing officer shall inform the requesting interested party of whether, in his view:
(a) the information withheld from the party is relevant to that party’s defence; and
(b) where relevant, the investigation services have correctly reflected the information in the facts and considerations on which they have based their conclusions.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2012/199/article/15 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2012-199/article-15
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