Article 16

     1.  At  intervals  of  three  years  the Member States shall send
information to the Commission on the implementation of this Directive,
in  the  form  of  a  sectoral  report  which  shall  also cover other
pertinent  Community  Directives. This report shall be drawn up on the
basis  of  a  questionnaire  or  outline  drafted by the Commission in
accordance  with  the  procedure  laid  down in Article 6 of Directive
91/692/EEC  <*>  The  questionnaire  or  outline  shall be sent to the
Member States six months before the start of the period covered by the
report.  The report shall be sent to the Commission within nine months
of the end of the three-year period covered by it.
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     <*> OJ No L 377, 31.12.1991, p. 48.

     The  first  report  shall  cover  the  period  from  1993 to 1995
inclusive.
     The   Commission   shall   publish  a  Community  report  on  the
implementation  of  the  Directive within nine months of receiving the
reports from the Member States.
     2.  Information  acquired  as a result of the application of this
Article shall be used only for the purpose for which it was requested.
     3.  The  Commission  and  the competent authorities of the Member
States,   their  officials  and  other  servants  shall  not  disclose
information  acquired by them pursuant to this Directive and of a kind
covered by the obligation of professional secrecy.
     4.  The  provisions  of  paragraphs  2  and  3  shall not prevent
publication  of  general  information  or surveys which do not contain
information  relating  to  particular  undertakings or associations of
undertakings.