56Moreover, as regards the complaints as to the merits, suffice it to note that it is clear from paragraph 43 of the present judgment that the confidentiality of the outcome of the deliberations of the Governing Council is guaranteed without it being necessary that that outcome must reflect those deliberations. Furthermore, while the confidentiality of the outcome of the deliberations may be relied upon on condition that that outcome has not been made public by the ECB, the fact that an approximate figure for the amount of credit in question had been published by the Bank of Portugal is not, per se, of such a nature as to require the ECB to disclose that amount. It follows that the ECB did not infringe the first indent of Article 4(1)(a) of Decision 2004/258 when it relied on that provision for the purpose of refusing to disclose the amount of credit in question.
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