105In the third place, the basic regulation lays down a certain number of provisions that allow the requirements linked to the rights of defence of the interested parties to be reconciled with those linked to the necessity of protecting confidential information. First, the access to information available to the interested parties under Article 6(7) and Article 20 of the basic regulation is restricted by the confidentiality of such information. It is clear from the wording of Article 6(7) of that regulation, set out in paragraph 98 above, that the confidential character of information supplied by a party concerned in the investigation precludes the interested parties from having access to it. Furthermore, Article 20(4) provides that final disclosure must be given ‘due regard being had to the protection of confidential information’. Second, Article 19(2) to (4) of the basic regulation provides a certain number of arrangements with respect to the confidentiality of the information in order to protect the rights of defence of the interested parties, seeking in particular to ensure, so far as possible, the existence of non-confidential summaries of confidential information, which must be sufficiently detailed to permit a reasonable understanding of the substance of the information submitted and the possibility for the institutions to disclose general information, in particular the reasons on which decisions taken pursuant to the basic regulation are based.
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