Article 4
Informing the interested party Where the possible personal implication of a Member of the Council or one of its bodies, or of an official or servant of the General Secretariat emerges, the interested party shall be informed rapidly provided that this does not jeopardise the investigation. In any event, conclusions referring by name to one of those persons may not be drawn once the investigation has been completed without the interested party having been enabled to express his views on all the facts which concern him. In cases necessitating the maintenance of absolute secrecy for the purposes of the investigation and requiring the use of investigative procedures falling within the remit of a national judicial authority, compliance with the obligation to invite the person concerned to give his views may be deferred in agreement with the President of the Council or the Secretary-General as appropriate.