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1. The Agency shall ensure the confidentiality, integrity and protection of the information received pursuant to Article 4(2) and Articles 8 and 10. The Agency shall take all necessary measures to prevent any misuse of, and unauthorised access to, the information maintained in its systems. The Commission, national regulatory authorities, competent financial authorities of the Member States, national tax authorities, Eurofisc, national competition authorities, ESMA and other relevant authorities shall ensure the confidentiality, integrity and protection of the information that they receive pursuant to Article 4(2), Article 7(2), Article 8(5) or Article 10, shall take steps to prevent any misuse of such information, and shall ensure compliance with the applicable data protection law. The Agency shall identify sources of operational risk and minimise them through the development of appropriate systems, controls and procedures.

2. By 8 May 2025, the Agency shall develop a reference centre containing information on Union wholesale energy market data (the ‘Reference Centre’). Subject to Article 17, the Agency shall make public, by means of the Reference Centre, parts of the information which it possesses, provided that commercially sensitive information on individual market participants, individual transactions or individual marketplaces are not disclosed and cannot be identified from the information made public. The Agency may also make public, by means of the Reference Centre, aggregated information on OMPs, IIPs and RRMs in accordance with the applicable data protection law, excluding commercially sensitive information. The Agency shall make its commercially non-sensitive trade database available for scientific purposes, subject to confidentiality requirements. Information shall be published or made available in the interest of improving transparency of wholesale energy markets and provided it is not likely to create any distortion in competition on those energy markets.

The Agency shall disseminate information in a fair manner in accordance with transparent rules which it shall draw up and make publicly available.