Article 8 - Professional secrecy and prohibition on disclosure of non-public information

Bearing in mind the professional secrecy requirements deriving from Article 37 of the Statute of the European System of Central Banks and the European Central Bank, Article 27 (1) of Regulation (EU) No 1024/2013 and Article 53 of Directive 2013/36/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council ⁹, the ECB and the NCAs shall take the necessary measures to ensure that their members of staff and the members of their bodies comply with the professional secrecy requirements applicable to them and are prohibited from disclosing non-public information to third parties unless authorised to disclose such information.