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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2012-678/article-12",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2012/678",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Decision of 29 June 2012 on investigations and fines related to the manipulation of statistics as referred to in Regulation (EU) No 1173/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the effective enforcement of budgetary surveillance in the euro area (2012/678/EU)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2012-678",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Confidentiality and professional secrecy",
  "text": "The investigations set out in Chapter II shall be conducted subject to the principles of confidentiality and professional secrecy. The Commission officials and other accompanying persons authorised by the Commission shall not disclose information that is acquired in the framework of the investigation which is covered by the obligation of professional secrecy and confidentiality.\nDocuments or information obtained by the Commission in the course of the investigations shall be used solely for the purposes of this Decision.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2012/678/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:15:17.005233+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}