(a) The commission may collect and disseminate to any and all interested parties, vintner market price information based on sales that have occurred in order to prevent unfair trade practices that are detrimental to the Mendocino County winegrape, wine, and winegrape products industries, including, but not limited to, deception and misinformation.
(b) The information reported under this section shall be kept confidential and shall not be made public under any circumstances. Only information that gives industry totals, averages, and other similar data in aggregate, nonindividualized form may be disclosed by the commission. The Legislature finds and declares that this provision is required to ensure that vintner proprietary information shall not be disclosed.
(c) The procedure for the collection and dissemination of information pursuant to this section shall be concurred in by the secretary.
(Added by Stats. 2005, Ch. 597, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2006.)