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All other information will not be considered confidential. Information relating to an undertaking but which is already known outside the undertaking (in case of a group, outside the group), or outside the association to which it has been communicated by that undertaking, will not normally be considered confidential. Information that has lost its commercial importance, for instance due to the passage of time, can no longer be regarded as confidential. As a general rule, the Commission presumes that information pertaining to the parties' turnover, sales, market-share data and similar information which is more than 5 years old is no longer confidential.

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In Step 4: Review & Send the Principal Addressee has the opportunity to review a stable version of the responses before submitting them to the Commission. Please review the non-confidential version of your answers carefully and ensure that the confidentiality claims have been encoded correctly before submission.

How to claim confidentiality in text answers

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The same dialogue box will appear as for text answers, so that you can create a confidentiality claim or reuse an existing one. After you successfully created a confidentiality claim, it will be visible in the footer of the question. To delete a confidentiality claim, click on the trash icon next to it.

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