Judgment_paragraph 78 · RTL Nederland BV and RTL Nieuws BV v Minister van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat (C-451/22)

78Such an objective of general interest might also be that consisting, for the EU legislature, in establishing, in a sector characterised by a particular situation, a system of supervision and control based on mechanisms for notification of information by the natural or legal persons concerned, shared analysis of that information by the national and EU competent authorities and protection of that information by means of confidentiality obligations. In particular, the Court has accepted that such obligations may be necessary to maintain the trust of the persons concerned and to protect them against the risk of disclosure of the information that they are to communicate to the competent authorities (see, as regards the financial supervision sector, judgment of 19 June 2018, Baumeister, C‑15/16, EU:C:2018:464, paragraphs 31 to 33 and 46, and, as regards the public procurement sector, judgment of 7 September 2021, Klaipėdos regiono atliekų tvarkymo centras, C‑927/19, EU:C:2021:700, paragraph 115 and the case-law cited).

RTL Nederland BV and RTL Nieuws BV v Minister van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat (C-451/22)

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