For the purposes of this Decision:
‘confidential information’ means information classified as ‘ECB-CONFIDENTIAL’ or ‘ECB-SECRET’ under the ECB's confidentiality regime; other confidential information, including information covered by data protection rules or by the obligation of professional secrecy, created within the ECB or forwarded to it by other bodies or individuals; any confidential information falling under the professional secrecy rules of Directive 2013/36/EU; as well as confidential statistical information in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 2533/98;
‘need to know’ means the need to have access to confidential information necessary for the fulfilment of a statutory function or task of the ECB, which in case of information labelled as ‘ECB-CONFIDENTIAL’ shall be broad enough to enable staff to access information relevant to their tasks and take over tasks from colleagues with minimal delays;
‘raw data’ means data transmitted by reporting agents, after statistical processing and validation, or data generated by the ECB through the execution of its functions;
‘ECB Confidentiality Regime’ means the regime of the ECB which defines how to classify, handle and protect confidential ECB information.