PTD-Art.20: Access to evidence
Member States shall ensure that, in proceedings, national courts can order the employer or a third party to disclose relevant evidence in their control, including confidential evidence subject to appropriate safeguards.
Our statement of the clause of Directive (EU) 2023/970 on pay transparency, held and verified: cite it as PTD-Art.20. The instrument verbatim is not quoted here; the held framework carries the reading.
The evidence this duty asks you to hold
Procedures for court-ordered evidence disclosure with confidentiality safeguards
What usually goes missing
No mechanism to compel disclosure of pay evidence
Where this lands in an audit
In Equal Pay Auditor this control informs the same-work screen, the category figures and the remediation steps, which carry their article citations on the result.