The Policy explicitly sets out 10 categories of information that are considered to be exceptions and not eligible for declassification:
- Personal information
- Communications of Governors and/or Executive Directors' offices
- Proceedings of Ethics Committee for Board Officials
- Information subject to attorney-client privilege
- Security and safety information
- Information under separate disclosure regimes and other investigative information
- Information provided by member countries or third parties in confidence
- Corporate administrative matters
- Deliberative information such as emails, notes, memoranda, draft reports, statistical analyses that inform the Bank's internal decision-making processes and individual audit reports
- Financial Information such as banking or billing information of World Bank Group entities, member countries, clients, donors, recipients, or vendors, including consultants
