Protecting businesses' trade secrets
At a Glance
05-04-2016
On 15 December 2015, Parliament and Council negotiators reached a provisional agreement on a new EU directive setting common rules for protecting trade secrets and confidential information in the EU. On 28 January 2016, the Legal Affairs Committee (rapporteur Constance Le Grip, EPP, France) endorsed the agreed text, which is now to be voted by Parliament as a whole.
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- confidentiality
- EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
- EMPLOYMENT AND WORKING CONDITIONS
- European construction
- EUROPEAN UNION
- freedom of communication
- industrial espionage
- industrial secret
- information and information processing
- judicial proceedings
- justice
- labour law and labour relations
- LAW
- POLITICS
- politics and public safety
- PRODUCTION, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH
- professional secret
- rights and freedoms
- single market
- technology and technical regulations
- whistleblowing