1. The national regulatory authority, the FCA, the CMA and other relevant authorities shall ensure the confidentiality, integrity and protection of the information which they receive pursuant to Articles 4(2), 7(2) or 8(5) and shall take steps to prevent any misuse of such information.

2. Subject to Article 17, the national regulatory authority may decide to make publicly available parts of the information which it possesses, provided that commercially sensitive information on individual market participants or individual transactions or individual market places are not disclosed and cannot be inferred.

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 national regulatory authority shall disseminate information in a fair manner according to transparent rules which it shall draw up and make publicly available.