Declassification
Article 4
1. The ECB shall in good time and not later than the 25 th year following the date of the creation of a classified document, examine categories of classified documents held by it in order to decide whether or not to declassify them to ‘ECB-PUBLIC’. The ECB shall re-examine ECB historical archives documents, or categories of documents, held by it which have not been declassified to ‘ECB-PUBLIC’ following the first such examination at least every five years thereafter. 2. In accordance with Article 2(3) of Regulation (EEC, Euratom) No 354/83, before deciding to declassify and make available to the public ECB historical archives documents which, if disclosed, could undermine the commercial interests of a natural or legal person, including intellectual property, the ECB shall publish a notice in the Official Journal of the European Union to inform the persons or undertakings concerned and invite them to submit observations within a period of no less than eight weeks as specified in the notice, with a view to assessing whether the documents shall or shall not be released.