Article 7
All contractors shall use reasonable care and diligence to determine the extent to which the knowledge is or may be subject to contractual, regulatory or legal limitations, obligations or restrictions that might limit or affect the dissemination of the knowledge and background information and thus substantially impede the smooth running of the project or the exploitation and commercialization of the knowledge obtained through the project. They shall inform their co-contractors and other parties to the project, either before signing the shared-cost contract or without delay after work on the project has commenced, to enable the latter to assess the impact of the limitations, obligations and restrictions in question, according to a procedure to be set out in the shared-cost contracts.