Confidential information rules balance protected disclosures with non-confidential summaries and limited reliance where confidentiality is unjustified.

Confidential information supplied in proceedings under the India-Malaysia Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (Bilateral Safeguard Measures) Rules, 2017 must be treated as confidential by the Director General when cause is shown and may not be disclosed without the supplier's specific authorisation. The Director General may require a non-confidential summary, or reasons why summarisation is not possible. If confidentiality is unwarranted or disclosure is refused, the information may be disregarded unless its correctness is otherwise established.

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