Without prejudice to cases covered by criminal law, the competent authorities, bodies or natural or legal persons other than competent authorities which receive confidential information pursuant to this Directive may use it only in the performance of their duties and for the exercise of their functions, in the case of the competent authorities, within the scope of this Directive or, in the case of other authorities, bodies or natural or legal persons, for the purpose for which such information was provided to them and/or in the context of administrative or judicial proceedings specifically related to the exercise of those functions.
Brez poseganja v primere, za katere velja kazensko pravo, lahko pristojni organi, telesa ali fizične ali pravne osebe, razen pristojnih organov, ki prejmejo zaupne informacije v skladu s to direktivo, te informacije uporabijo samo pri opravljanju svojih dolžnosti in za izvajanje svojih funkcij, v primeru pristojnih organov v okviru področja uporabe te direktive ali v primeru drugih organov, teles ali fizičnih ali pravnih oseb za namen, za katerega so jim bile take informacije posredovane in/ali v okviru upravnih ali sodnih postopkov, ki se specifično nanašajo na izvajanje teh funkcij.