{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2017-1185/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2017-1185/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2017/1185",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1185 of 20 April 2017 laying down rules for the application of Regulations (EU) No 1307/2013 and (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards notifications to the Commission of information and documents and amending and repealing several Commission Regulations (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2017-1185",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Protection of personal data",
  "text": "1. The provisions of this Regulation shall apply without prejudice to Directive 95/46/EC, Regulation (EC) No 45/2001, Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, and Directive 2002/58/EC and the provisions adopted pursuant to them.\n2. Member States shall take the necessary steps to protect the confidentiality of data received from economic operators.\n3. Where information notified to the Commission is obtained from less than three operators, or where information from a single operator accounts for more than 70 % of the quantum of such information notified, the Member State concerned shall signal this to the Commission when notifying the information.\n4. The Commission shall not publish information in such a way that can lead to the identification of an individual operator. Where such a risk exists, the Commission shall only publish such information in an aggregate form.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2017/1185/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:44:46.411224+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."
}