Article 41 Partial downgrading or declassification of CONFIDENTIEL UE/EU CONFIDENTIAL or SECRET UE/EU SECRET information

Partial downgrading or declassification shall also be possible (e.g. annexes, some paragraphs only). The procedure shall be identical to that for downgrading or declassifying an entire document.

Upon partial declassification (‘sanitising’) of CONFIDENTIEL UE/EU CONFIDENTIAL or SECRET UE/EU SECRET information, a declassified extract shall be produced.

The parts that remain classified shall be replaced by:

either in the body of the text itself, if the part that remains classified is a part of a paragraph, or as a paragraph, if the part that remains classified is a specific paragraph or more than one paragraph.

Specific mention shall be made in the text if a complete annex cannot be declassified and has therefore been withheld from the extract.