Article 9 › 5
PLD
Member States shall ensure that, where a defendant is required to disclose information that is a trade secret or an alleged trade secret, national courts are empowered, upon a duly reasoned request of a party or on their own initiative, to take the specific measures necessary to preserve the confidentiality of that information when it is used or referred to in the course of or after the legal proceedings.
Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-25 · Text as consolidated on 2024-11-18; changes after this date are not shown.