{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2005-65/article-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2005-65/article-16.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2005/65",
  "legislation_title": "Directive 2005/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 October 2005 on enhancing port security (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2005-65",
  "path": "article/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Confidentiality and dissemination of information",
  "text": "1. In applying this Directive, the Commission shall take, in accordance with Decision 2001/844/EC, ECSC, Euratom, appropriate measures to protect information subject to the requirement of confidentiality to which it has access or which is communicated to it by Member States.\nMember States shall take equivalent measures in accordance with relevant national legislation.\n2. Any personnel carrying out security inspections, or handling confidential information related to this Directive, shall have an appropriate level of security vetting by the Member State of which the person concerned is a national.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 317, 3.12.2001, p. 1. Decision as last amended by Decision 2005/94/EC, Euratom (OJ L 31, 4.2.2005, p. 66)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2005/65/article/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:22:40.723966+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."
}