Vsaka država članica v posebnih primerih ter pod pogoji in v mejah, določenih z nacionalno zakonodajo,predvidi, da nadzorni ali upravni organ SCE ali udeležene pravne osebe, ustanovljene na njenem ozemlju, ni dolžan posredovati informacij, ki bi lahko zaradi vsebine po objektivnih merilih s posredovanjem lahko resno škodile delovanju SCE (ali, glede na primer, udeleženi pravni osebi) ali njenih hčerinskih družb in podružnic ali bi ga prejudicirale.
Each Member State shall provide, in specific cases and under the conditions and limits laid down by national legislation, that the supervisory or administrative organ of an SCE or of a participating legal entity established in its territory is not obliged to transmit information where its nature is such that, according to objective criteria, to do so would seriously harm the functioning of the SCE (or, as the case may be, a participating legal entity) or its subsidiaries and establishments or would be prejudicial to them.