Confidential data and disclosure of data
Article 6
1. In their submission, manufacturers and importers shall mark all information which they consider to be a trade secret or otherwise confidential and shall, upon request, duly justify their claims. 2. When using the information transmitted for the purposes of applying Directive 2014/40/EU and Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 4 ) , the Commission shall, in principle, not consider the following information to be confidential or a trade secret: (a) for all tobacco products, inclusion and quantity of additives other than flavourings; (b) for all tobacco products, inclusion and quantity of ingredients other than additives used in quantities above 0,5 % of the total tobacco product unit weight; (c) for cigarettes and roll-your-own tobacco, inclusion and quantity of individual flavourings used in quantities above 0,1 % of the total tobacco product unit weight; (d) for pipe tobacco, cigars, cigarillos, smokeless tobacco products and all other tobacco products inclusion and quantity of individual flavourings used in quantities above 0,5 % of the total tobacco product unit weight; (e) studies and data submitted according to Article 5(3) of Directive 2014/40/EU, in particular on toxicity and addictiveness. Where those studies are linked to specific brands, the explicit and implicit references to the brand shall be removed and the redacted version shall be accessible.