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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-402/article-9",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2018/402",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision (EU) 2018/402 of 13 March 2018 setting up the European Advisory Group for the European Labour Authority (Text with relevance for the EEA and for Switzerland)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-402",
  "path": "article/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Professional secrecy and handling of classified information",
  "text": "The members of the group and their representatives, as well as invited experts and observers, are subject to the obligation of professional secrecy, which by virtue of the Treaties and the rules implementing them applies to all members of the institutions and their staff, as well as to the Commission's rules on security regarding the protection of Union classified information, laid down in Commission Decisions (EU, Euratom) 2015/443 and (EU, Euratom) 2015/444. Should they fail to respect these obligations, the Commission may take all appropriate measures.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Commission Decision (EU, Euratom) 2015/443 of 13 March 2015 on Security in the Commission (OJ L 72, 17.3.2015, p. 41)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Commission Decision (EU, Euratom) 2015/444 of 13 March 2015 on the security rules for protecting EU classified information (OJ L 72, 17.3.2015, p. 53)."
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:13:10.016797+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."
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