Article 116 of the General Law of Transparency and Access to Public Information (General Law) defines confidential information as: i) the information that contains personal data of an identified or unidentified natural person; ii) banking, fiduciary, industrial, commercial, fiscal, stock market and postal secrecy, whose ownership is held by individuals, subjects of international law, or obligated entities; and iii) information that is submitted by individuals to the obligated entities, provided that they have the right to do so, in accordance with the provisions of the laws or international treaties. According to this article, confidential information will not be subject to any temporality and only its owners, their representatives and the public officials authorized to do so may have access to it. Article 24, section VI, of the General Law provides that obligated entities must protect, and safeguard information classified as reserved or confidential. These obligated entities are defined, under article 23, as any authority, entity, body or agency of the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Powers, autonomous bodies, political parties, trusts and public funds, as well as any individual, legal entity or union who receives and uses public resources or performs acts of authority of the Federation, the States and the municipalities. In accordance with the above, COFECE is, under the General Law, an obligated entity which must protect and safeguard confidential and reserved information.  In addition, article 3, section IX of the LFCE provides a definition for confidential information as that in case of disclosure may potentially damage the competitive position of the economic agent who provided it, contains personal data, may endanger its security or when its disclosure is legally prohibited.  Same article 3, section XI, of the LFCE establishes that reserved information is that which may only be accessed by the economic agents with a legal standing in a Commission’s procedure.  See also response 5.10.