# The Feeding Stuffs Regulations 2000, Regulation 12: Confidential information relating to additives


(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) below, no person shall publish or disclose any confidential information obtained by him in the performance of functions under regulation 11, without the previous consent in writing of the person who, in accordance with that regulation, has made an application for Community authorisation of, or, as the case may be, for a new use of, the additive concerned.
(2) Nothing in paragraph (1) above shall restrict the publication or disclosure of such information for the purpose of the exercise of functions under regulation 11.
(3) Nothing in paragraph (1) above shall prevent the publication or disclosure of confidential information of a type specified in Article 7.2 of the Additives Directive.
(4) In this regulation, “confidential information” means information of the type specified in Article 7.1 of the Additives Directive.
(5) A publication or disclosure in contravention of paragraph (1) above shall be punishable as if it were a disclosure prohibited by section 83.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2481/regulation/12 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-regulations-2000/regulation-12
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