{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-protection-products-regulations-1995/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-protection-products-regulations-1995/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/887",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Protection Products Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-protection-products-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Confidentiality",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, where an applicant for the inclusion of an active substance in Annex I or an applicant for approval of a plant protection product so requests, the Ministers shall treat any information submitted by that applicant as confidential to the extent that in the opinion of the Ministers that information contains industrial or commercial secrets.\n(2) The Ministers shall not treat as confidential the information specified in Schedule 1 and, once the application has been granted, the Ministers may make that information available to any person for inspection.\n(3) If subsequent to the request mentioned in paragraph (1) above the applicant discloses any information which is confidential by virtue of this regulation, he shall inform the Ministers accordingly.\n(4) This regulation is without prejudice to the provisions of the Environmental Information Regulations 1992.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/3240, which implements in Great Britain Council Directive 90/313/EEC on the freedom of access to information on the environment (OJ No. L158, 23.6.90, p.56); these Regulations provide for a general right of disclosure of information relating to the environment which is held by (inter alia) Ministers of the Crown (other than information capable of being treated as confidential) and specify certain requirements which must be observed in responding to requests for disclosure of such information."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/887/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:12:14.701940+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."
}