The obligation to maintain secrecy shall not apply towards employee representationbodies if, according to national legislation, the latter are obliged to maintain secrecy

The members of the EWC and their deputy members shall be obliged not to pass onany business secrets to a third party, if information was disclosed to them in the courseof their term of office in the EWC which the employer's side explicitly declared asconfidential. This shall also apply after they have left the EWC. Any expert consulted bythe EWC shall also be obliged to maintain secrecy in the same way. There shall be nosecrecy within the EWC