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1.EU reference laboratories shall have a confidentiality policy that includes the following:
(a)the type of information that shall be considered confidential;
(b)rules for the appropriate secure handling, storage and processing of confidential information and measures to prevent undue disclosure;
(c)rules for sharing of confidential and non-confidential information with staff, and the public;
(d)rules for granting access to confidential information to a competent authority of a Member State upon its request in the context of market surveillance or vigilance activities by the competent authority;
(e)rules for sharing confidential information, on the initiative of the EU reference laboratory, with a competent authority of a Member State and with the Commission where the EU reference laboratory has reason to believe that such sharing is in the interest of protection of public health.
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