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Lexis®+ Information Law is an online practical guidance product for contentious and non-contentious lawyers dealing with Data Protection, Confidential Information, Privacy, Cybersecurity and Freedom of Information issues.

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‘Confidential Information’—one-way—pro-discloser

means all information of a confidential nature (in whatever form) which relates to the Purpose and is received or acquired (whether directly or indirectly) by [Party B][, its Authorised Persons][ or its Affiliates] including: (a) any know-how, trade secrets, financial, commercial, technical, tactical or strategic information of any kind; (b) all information produced, developed or derived from information disclosed pursuant to this Agreement; (c) all information agreed to be, or marked as, confidential; (d) the information specified in Schedule [insert Schedule number] to this Agreement; (e) any information [Party B][, its Affiliates][ or [its OR their ]Authorised Persons] knows, or could reasonably be expected to know, is confidential; and (f) [the terms and existence of this Agreement.] but excluding any information which: (a) is, or was already known or available to [Party B], otherwise than pursuant to or through breach of any confidentiality obligation owed to [Party A]; (b) is, or becomes, in the public domain other than through any breach of this Agreement (save that any publicly available information shall be classified as Confidential Information where it is compiled in a form that is not in the public domain); (c) is disclosed to [Party B] without any obligation of confidence to [Party A] by a third party who is not itself under or in breach of any obligation of confidentiality; (d) is developed by or on behalf of [Party B] in circumstances where the developing party has not had direct or indirect access to the information disclosed, provided that [Party B] provides satisfactory evidence of the same to [Party A]; (e) [Party A] agrees in writing does not constitute Confidential Information.

Banking and financial market infrastructure sector

Under the NIS Directive, organisations operating in the banking and financial market infrastructure sectors (such as banks and credit institutions, or operators of trading venues or central counterparties) were included as OESs. Article 1(7) of the NIS Directive permitted EU Member States (which at the time included the UK) to limit the scope of the NIS Directive for certain sectors where existing legislation provided equivalent measures to those specified in the NIS Directive. Therefore, the NIS Regulations have never covered the banking and financial market infrastructure sectors on the basis that firms operating in those sectors must continue to adhere to requirements and standards as set by other regulatory regimes.

Telecommunications operator

“Telecommunications operator” means a person who— (a) offers or provides a telecommunications service to persons in the United Kingdom, or (b) controls or provides a telecommunication system which is (wholly or partly)— (i) in the United Kingdom, or (ii) controlled from the United Kingdom.
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