Verdrag tussen de Partijen bij het Noord-Atlantisch Verdrag inzake de beveiliging van gegevens

The Parties shall:
(i) protect and safeguard: a) classified information (see Annex I), marked as such, which is originated by NATO (see Annex II) or which is submitted to NATO by a member state;
b) classified information, marked as such, of the member states submitted to another member state in support of a NATO programme, project, or contract,
a) classified information (see Annex I), marked as such, which is originated by NATO (see Annex II) or which is submitted to NATO by a member state;
b) classified information, marked as such, of the member states submitted to another member state in support of a NATO programme, project, or contract,
(ii) maintain the security classification of information as defined under (i) above and make every effort to safeguard it accordingly;
(iii) not use classified information as defined under (i) above for purposes other than those laid down in the North Atlantic Treaty and the decisions and resolutions pertaining to that Treaty;
(iv) not disclose such information as defined under (i) above to non-NATO Parties without the consent of the originator.

Pursuant to Article 1 of this Agreement, the Parties shall ensure the establishment of a National Security Authority for NATO activities which shall implement protective security measures. The Parties shall establish and implement security standards which shall ensure a common degree of protection for classified information.

1. The Parties shall ensure that all persons of their respective nationality who, in the conduct of their official duties, require or may have access to information classified CONFIDENTIAL and above are appropriately cleared before they take up their duties.
2. Security clearance procedures shall be designed to determine whether an individual can, taking into account his or her loyalty and trustworthiness, have access to classified information without constituting an unacceptable risk to security.
3. Upon request, each of the Parties shall cooperate with the other Parties in carrying out their respective security clearance procedures.

The Secretary General shall ensure that the relevant provisions of this Agreement are applied by NATO (see Annex III).

The present Agreement in no way prevents the Parties from making other Agreements relating to the exchange of classified information originated by them and not affecting the scope of the present Agreement.

a). This Agreement shall be open for signature by the Parties to the North Atlantic Treaty and shall be subject to ratification, acceptance or approval. The instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval shall be deposited with the Government of the United States of America;
b). This Agreement shall enter into force thirty days after the date of deposit by two signatory States of their instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval. It shall enter into force for each other signatory State thirty days after the deposit of its instrument of ratification, acceptance or approval.
c). This Agreement shall with respect to the Parties for which it entered into force supersede the “Security Agreement by the Parties to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization” approved by the North Atlantic Council in Annex A (paragraph 1) to Appendix to Enclosure to D.C. 2/7, on 19th April, 1952, and subsequently incorporated in Enclosure “A” (paragraph 1) to C-M(55)15(Final), approved by the North Atlantic Council on 2nd March, 1955.

This Agreement shall remain open for accession by any new Party to the North Atlantic Treaty, in accordance with its own constitutional procedures. Its instrument of accession shall be deposited with the government of the United States of America. It shall enter into force in respect of each acceding State thirty days after the day of the deposit of its instrument of accession.

The Government of the United States of America shall inform the Governments of the other Parties of the deposit of each instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession.

This Agreement may be denounced by written notice of denunciation by any Party given to the depository which shall inform all the other Parties of such notice. Such denunciation shall take effect one year after receipt of notification by the depository, but shall not affect obligations already contracted and the rights or prerogatives previously acquired by the Parties under the provisions of this Agreement.