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1. The Commission shall be assisted by a committee. 2. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Articles 4 and 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply. The period laid down in Article 4(3) of Decision 1999/468/EC shall be set at one month.
The procedures for applying this Regulation shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 22(2). They shall in particular determine the implementation of the methods of allocation, the information to be transmitted by the competent authorities in the Member States and the measures intended to ensure compliance with this Regulation.
1. The information received by the Council, the Commission or the Member States pursuant to this Regulation may be used only for the purposes for which it was requested. 2. The Council, the Commission and the Member States, and those acting on their behalf, shall not disclose information in respect of which a duly substantiated request for confidential treatment has been lodged, except where express authorisation is granted by the party providing the information. 3. This Article shall not prevent the Community authorities from disclosing information of a general nature, in particular the grounds on which decisions are taken pursuant to this Regulation, or evidence used by them to justify their arguments in the event of legal proceedings. Such disclosure must take into account the legitimate interest of the parties concerned in preserving commercial confidentiality.
Member States and the Commission shall provide each other with the requisite information and shall cooperate in applying this Regulation. Communication and information dissemination procedures shall, where necessary, be established in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 22(2).
Regulation (EC) No 520/94, as amended by the Regulations listed in Annex I, is repealed. References to the repealed Regulation shall be construed as references to this Regulation and shall be read in accordance with the correlation table in Annex II.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .
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