1. Members of the Supervisory Board, of the Steering Committee and of any substructures established by the Supervisory Board, staff of the ECB and staff seconded by participating Member States carrying out supervisory duties shall be required, even after their duties have ceased, not to disclose information of the kind covered by the obligation of professional secrecy.
2. Persons having access to data covered by Union legislation imposing an obligation of secrecy shall be subject to such legislation.
3. The ECB shall subject individuals who provide any service, directly or indirectly, permanently or occasionally, related to the discharge of supervisory duties to equivalent professional secrecy requirements by means of contractual arrangements.
4. The rules on professional secrecy contained in Directive 2013/36/EU shall apply to the persons specified in paragraphs 1 to 3. In particular, confidential information that such persons receive in the course of their duties may be disclosed only in summary or aggregate form in such a way that individual credit institutions cannot be identified, without prejudice to cases covered by criminal law.
5. Nevertheless, where a credit institution has been declared bankrupt or is being compulsorily wound up, confidential information which does not concern third parties involved in attempts to rescue that credit institution may be disclosed in civil or commercial proceedings.
6. This Article shall not prevent the ECB's supervisory function from exchanging information with other Union or national authorities in line with applicable Union law. Information so exchanged shall be subject to paragraphs 1 to 5.
7. The ECB's confidentiality regime shall apply to the ECB's members of the Supervisory Board, ECB staff and staff seconded by participating Member States carrying out supervisory duties, even after their duties are ceased.