Of course, I would point out that the medical staff are also bound by professional secrecy.

But the statement did not resolve the issue of professional secrecy.

Provided that professional secrecy applies, I welcome the obligation for officials to testify.

"And we, of course, accept your offer of professional secrecy.

In addition, it would authorize officials to withhold other information on the grounds of professional secrecy.

For example, lawyers have a duty of professional secrecy as regards the information entrusted to them by their clients.

For this reason, professional secrecy is both a fundamental right and a fundamental duty of lawyers.

Community servants must be bound by professional secrecy.

All participants in the discussions shall be obliged to comply with the applicable rules of professional secrecy.

And social workers are sworn to professional secrecy."

Any vestige of professional secrecy that once constrained our great-grandfathers would have died with them.

The members of the Committee shall be required not to disclose information covered by the obligation of professional secrecy.

The Chief of Defense declassified all military personnel from their professional secrecy regarding the incident.

Mr President, I would now like to touch on some of the specific issues that have emerged, starting with professional secrecy.

The oath also fosters professional secrecy.

The sacrosanct professional secrecy is preserved, unless the legal advisor is himself involved in financial misdealing.

A little later, the Professional Code enshrined principles such as professional secrecy and the confidential nature of personal information.

Later the Ministry of Defence vacated the obligation of professional secrecy for current and previous employees in regard to information about the matter.

This issue is not being paid the attention it deserves. The professional secrecy of lawyers and those in similar professions is not a secondary issue.

For this reason, we need to define modalities for the treatment of classified information, documents and other information covered by the obligation of professional secrecy.

Acquire acts and dossiers from judicial investigations, with the authority to overcome the professional secrecy, both of judicial and banking nature.

Professional secrecy is untouchable, not just in the context of trials in process but also in the context of legal consultation.

As a result of the conciliation agreement, lawyers' professional secrecy will be safeguarded unless the lawyer knows that the legal advice sought is for money laundering purposes.

Unlike the rapporteur, we do not believe that we should compromise the strict professional secrecy by which certain professions, such as lawyers, priests and psychologists, are bound.

The Huyghes immediately announced they were bringing charges on two counts because the communiqué constituted a violation of professional secrecy and because it could influence legal investigations.