The declaration of interests and any updates thereto shall be kept for a period of five years from the end of the duties for which they were submitted, at which time they shall be destroyed, with due regard for the confidentiality of the information contained therein. However, in the event of disciplinary or criminal proceedings based on a breach relating to the information contained in the declaration of interests or its update, the destruction of these declarations is suspended until the expiry of the period during which any appeals against the decision taken at the end of the disciplinary or criminal proceedings have been exhausted.
The declaration of interests and its update are kept until the expiry of a period of five years from the end of the duties in respect of which they were submitted.