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1. Market participants shall publicly disclose in an effective and timely manner inside information which they possess in respect of business or facilities which the market participant concerned, or its parent undertaking or related undertaking, owns or controls or for whose operational matters that market participant or undertaking is responsible, either in whole or in part. Such disclosure shall include information relevant to the capacity and use of facilities for production, storage, consumption or transmission of electricity, hydrogen or natural gas ◄ or related to the capacity and use of LNG facilities, including planned or unplanned unavailability of these facilities. Market participants shall disclose the inside information through IIPs. The IIPs shall ensure that the inside information is made public in a manner which enables prompt access to that information, including through a website or a clear application programming interface, and a complete, correct and timely assessment of that information by the public.

2. A market participant may under its own responsibility exceptionally delay the public disclosure of inside information so as not to prejudice its legitimate interests provided that such omission is not likely to mislead the public and provided that the market participant is able to ensure the confidentiality of that information and does not make decisions relating to trading in wholesale energy products based upon that information. In such a situation the market participant shall without delay provide that information, together with a justification for the delay of the public disclosure, to the Agency and the relevant national regulatory authority having regard to Article 8(5).

3. Whenever a market participant or a person employed by, or acting on behalf of, a market participant discloses inside information in relation to a wholesale energy product in the normal exercise of his employment, profession or duties as referred to in point (b) of Article 3(1), that market participant or person shall ensure simultaneous, complete and effective public disclosure of that information. In the event of a non-intentional disclosure the market participant shall ensure complete and effective public disclosure of the information as soon as possible following the non-intentional disclosure. This paragraph shall not apply if the person receiving the information has a duty of confidentiality, regardless of whether such duty derives from law, regulation, articles of association or a contract.

4. The publication of inside information, including in aggregated form, in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2019/943 of the European Parliament and of the Council () or Regulation (EC) No 715/2009, and with guidelines and network codes adopted pursuant to those Regulations shall constitute effective disclosure but not necessarily timely and public disclosure within the meaning of paragraph 1 of this Article.

4a. By 8 May 2025, the Agency shall develop and operate a platform serving as a sector-specific electronic access point for inside information disclosed pursuant to paragraph 1.

5. Where an exemption from the obligation to publish certain data has been granted to a transmission system operator, in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2019/943 ◄ or (EC) No 715/2009, that operator is thereby also exempted from the obligation set out in paragraph 1 of this Article in respect of that data.

6. Paragraphs 1 and 2 are without prejudice to the obligations of market participants under Directives 2009/72/EC and 2009/73/EC, and Regulation (EU) 2019/943 ◄ and (EC) No 715/2009, including guidelines and network codes adopted pursuant to those Directives and Regulations, in particular regarding the timing and method of publication of information.

7. Paragraphs 1 and 2 are without prejudice to the right of market participants to delay the disclosure of sensitive information relating to the protection of critical infrastructure as provided for in point (d) of Article 2 of Council Directive 2008/114/EC of 8 December 2008 on the identification and designation of European critical infrastructures and the assessment of the need to improve their protection (), if it is classified in their country.