4. Each Party shall provide, upon request, to any other Party, information available to that Party and its entities concerning covered procurement of its entities and the individual contracts awarded by its entities.
5. No Party shall disclose confidential information the disclosure of which would prejudice the legitimate commercial interests of a particular person or might prejudice fair competition between suppliers, without the formal authorization of the person that provided the information to that Party.
6. Nothing in this Chapter shall be construed as requiring any Party to disclose confidential information the disclosure of which would impede law enforcement or otherwise be contrary to the public interest.
7. With a view to ensuring effective monitoring of procurement covered by this Chapter, each Party shall collect statistics and provide to the other Parties each year an annual report in accordance with the following reporting requirements, unless the Parties unanimously agree to modify such requirements:
(a) statistics on the estimated value of all contracts awarded, both above and below the applicable threshold values, broken down by entities;
(b) statistics on the number and total value of contracts covered by this Chapter above the applicable threshold values, broken down by entities, categories of goods or services according to uniform classification systems to be determined by the Parties, and country of origin of the contract;
(c) statistics, broken down by entities, and by categories of goods or services, on the number and total value of contracts awarded under each use of the procedures described in Article 1016 (Limited Tendering), and country of origin of the contract; and
(d) statistics, broken down by entities, on the number and total value of contracts awarded under derogations to the Chapter listed in the appropriate annexes.
8. With respect to the reports described in paragraph 7 that pertain to entities listed in Annex 1002.2 (State and Provincial Government Entities), each Party may organize such reports by state or province.
9. Each Party shall give favorable consideration, where appropriate, to a request from any other Party for the exchange of additional information on a reciprocal basis.