I.-Access to statements made with a view to obtaining the benefit of the procedure for exemption from a financial penalty provided for in IV of Article L. 464-2 or by equivalent provisions of the national law of another Member State is granted only to the parties to the proceedings concerned.
Information obtained from these statements and which can only be obtained through access to the file of the proceedings may be used by a party having had access to this file solely for the exercise of the rights of defence in proceedings relating to an appeal brought against a decision of the Autorité de la concurrence mentioned in Article L. 464-8 of the French Commercial Code.
II.-Access to the settlement proposal made under the procedure provided for in III of Article L. 464-2 or the second paragraph of Article L. 464-9 is granted only to the party concerned by this proposal.
The information drawn from this proposal may be used by this party solely for the exercise of the rights of defence in an appeal brought against a decision of the Autorité de la concurrence mentioned in Article L. 464-8 or before the administrative court ruling on an appeal against a settlement proposal by the Minister responsible for the economy.