Activities of Tadeusz ZWIEFKA related to 2013/0402(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Protection of trade secrets against their unlawful acquisition, use and disclosure (debate) PL
Amendments (1)
Amendment 50 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) It is appropriate to provide for rules at Union level to approximate the national legislative systems so as to ensure a sufficient and consistent level of redress across the internal market in case of unlawful acquisition, use or disclosure of a trade secret. For this purpose, it is important to establish a homogenous definition of a trade secret without restricting the subject matter to be protected against misappropriation. Such definition should therefore be constructed as to cover business information, technological information and know-how where there is both a legitimate interest in keeping confidential and a legitimate expectation in the preservation of such confidentiality. By nature, such definition should exclude trivial information and should not extend to the knowledge and skills gained by employees in the normal course of their employment and which are known among or accessible to persons within the circles that normally deal with the kind of information in question. This Directive is without prejudice to the possibility for Member States to provide for a more far reaching protection against the unlawful acquisition, use or disclosure of trade secrets.