(6)Guideline ECB/1998/NP28 specifies obligations of the members of the ESCB with regard to the handling of confidential statistical information with regard to their tasks outside the SSM. The same level of protection should be ensured in the transmission and subsequent use of confidential statistical information with regard to both national competent authorities (NCAs) of Member States participating in the SSM, including NCBs with regard to their function as NCAs, and the ECB in the performance of its tasks under Regulation (EU) No 1024/2013.