178It is not disputed that, unlike the applicant, the other Chinese exporting producers included in the sample were not given permission by the analogue country producer to have access to the data provided by the latter to the Commission for the normal value calculation. It follows from the wording of Article 19(5) of the basic regulation that, failing such permission, the institutions are required not to disclose information in respect of which the person supplying it had requested confidential treatment. By contrast, as was observed in paragraphs 164 to 168 above, it follows from the wording of Articles 19(1) and 20(4) of the basic regulation, read in the light of the case-law, that, even where the information is confidential, covered by business secrecy in particular, the institutions have a certain measure of discretion which requires, in particular, balancing the interests protected by that confidentiality against the rights of defence of the interested parties seeking disclosure of that information. It is true that, contrary to what the applicant submits, the authorisation of the analogue country producer does not give it, as of right, access to the information that it requested. Nevertheless, unlike the other Chinese exporting producers included in the sample, the applicant did in fact have, at the very least, as a result of that authorisation, the right to have its request examined to assess whether it was well founded, by balancing its rights of defence against the interests protected by confidentiality of the information requested.
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