Questão jurídica principal
Whether administrative assistance to the Dutch securities regulator satisfied Article 38 BEHG conditions, including specialization and secrecy requirements.
Decisão extraída
Yes. STE qualified as a foreign securities supervisory authority bound by confidentiality and had sufficiently undertaken to use the information only for direct supervision.
Fundamentação extraída
The court held that the specialization principle and the long-arm principle were satisfied by the exchange of letters and by STE's commitments; the BEHG does not require a legally binding international-law guarantee.