Common use of Confidentiality Procedures Clause in Contracts

Confidentiality Procedures. 1. Each Contracting Party shall be responsible for the choice of the appropriate classification level in accordance with Article 12 for information supplied to the other Contracting Party. 2. In choosing the classification level, each Contracting Party shall adhere to the classification of the information under its national law or applicable regulations and take into account the need for flexibility and the requirement that classification of law enforcement information should be the exception and that, if such information has to be classified, the lowest possible level should be assigned. 3. If either Contracting Party - on the basis of information already in its possession - comes to the conclusion that the choice of classification level needs amendment, it shall inform the other Contracting Party and attempt to agree on an appropriate classification level. Neither Contracting Party shall specify or change a classification level of information supplied by the other Contracting Party without the consent of that Party. 4. Each Contracting Party may at any time request an amendment of the classification level related to the information it has supplied, including a possible removal of such a level. The other Contracting Party shall amend the classification level in accordance with such requests. Each Contracting Party shall, as soon as circumstances allow this, ask for amendment of the classification level to a lower one or its removal. 5. Each Contracting Party may specify the time period for which the choice of classification level shall apply, and any possible amendments to the classification level after such period. 6. Where information of which the classification level is amended in accordance with this Article has already been supplied to one or more of the Member States of the European Union or third parties, Europol shall, at the request of the Europol section of the MoI, inform the recipients of the change of classification level.

Confidentiality Procedures. 1. Each Contracting Party shall be responsible for the choice of the appropriate classification level in accordance with Article 12 for information supplied to the other Contracting Party. 2. In choosing the classification level, each Contracting Party shall adhere to the classification of the information under its national law or applicable regulations and take into account the need for flexibility and the requirement that classification of law enforcement information should be the exception and that, if such information has to be classified, the lowest possible level should be assigned. 3. If either Contracting Party - on the basis of information already in its possession - comes to the conclusion that the choice of classification level needs amendment, it shall inform the other Contracting Party and attempt to agree on an appropriate classification level. Neither Contracting Party shall specify or change a classification level of information supplied by the other Contracting Party without the consent of that Party. 4. Each Contracting Party may at any time request an amendment of the classification level related to the information it has supplied, including a possible removal of such a level. The other Contracting Party shall amend the classification level in accordance with such requests. Each Contracting Party shall, as soon as circumstances allow this, ask for amendment of the classification level to a lower one or its removal. 5. Each Contracting Party may specify the time period for which the choice of classification level shall apply, and any possible amendments to the classification level after such period. 6. Where information of which the classification level is amended in accordance with this Article has already been supplied to one or more of the Member States of the European Union or third partiesUnion, Europol shall, at the request of the Europol section of the MoINational Focal Point, inform the recipients of the change of classification level.