Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA)
Table of Contents
Chapter I – General provisions
Chapter II – ICT risk management
Chapter III – ICT-related incident management, classification and reporting
Chapter IV – Digital operational resilience testing
Chapter V – Managing of ICT third-party risk
Chapter VI – Information-sharing arrangements
Chapter VII – Competent authorities
Chapter VIII – Delegated acts
Chapter IX – Transitional and final provisions
Recitals (106)
Chapter VII – Competent authorities
Article 55
Professional secrecy
1. Any confidential information received, exchanged or transmitted pursuant to this Regulation shall be subject to the conditions of professional secrecy laid down in paragraph 2.
2. The obligation of professional secrecy applies to all persons who work, or who have worked, for the competent authorities pursuant to this Regulation, or for any authority or market undertaking or natural or legal person to whom those competent authorities have delegated their powers, including auditors and experts contracted by them.
3. Information covered by professional secrecy, including the exchange of information among competent authorities under this Regulation and competent authorities designated or established in accordance with NIS2 Directive (Network and Information Security), shall not be disclosed to any other person or authority except by virtue of provisions laid down by Union or national law;
4. All information exchanged between the competent authorities pursuant to this Regulation that concerns business or operational conditions and other economic or personal affairs shall be considered confidential and shall be subject to the requirements of professional secrecy, except where the competent authority states, at the time of communication, that such information may be disclosed or where such disclosure is necessary for legal proceedings.
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