The Member States 25 March 1957, Consolidated version of the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community#TITLE II - Provisions for the encouragement of progress in the field of nuclear energy#CHAPTER 1 - PROMOTION OF RESEARCH#Article 6

By such opinions the Commission shall discourage unnecessary duplication and shall direct research towards sectors which are insufficiently explored. The Commission may not publish these programmes without the consent of the State, person or undertaking which has communicated them.