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a). Access to the archives and documents held by the International Tracing Services shall always be granted with due regard to the protection of the privacy of personal data, in accordance with the provisions below. The fulfillment of the humanitarian and research mandates is fully compatible with this Article.
b). The International Tracing Service and the International Commission and the Liaison Officers shall take all reasonable steps to avoid divulging information about a person or persons which might prejudice the interests of the person or persons concerned or of their relatives.
c). The use of personal data based on information taken from the original archives and documents provided by the International Tracing Service at Bad Arolsen, including their dissemination through publications, shall be governed by a set of rules laid down in directives unanimously adopted by the International Commission. Such directives shall give due regard to the interests of a person or persons concerned and their close relatives as well as to the furtherance of research on and knowledge about the period and events covered by the archives and documents held at the International Tracing Service.
d). In providing access to copies of the archives and documents of the International Tracing Service, each Party to the present Agreement, taking into consideration the sensitivity of information these copies may contain, shall ensure through national law adequate protection of personal data derived from such information.