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For the purpose of this Agreement:
a) “Agreement” means this document, including its Annex;
b) “Classified Contract” means any legally binding instrument to provide goods and/or services to be entered into by one of the Parties or a Contractor under its jurisdiction with a Contractor under the jurisdiction of the other Party, which contains Classified Information or the performance of which requires access or potential access to Classified Information. This term includes pre-contractual activity;
c) “Classified Information” means any information regardless of its form that is assigned a security classification level by a Party, the unauthorised disclosure, alteration, compromise or loss of which could cause varying degrees of damage or harm to the interests of one or both of the Parties. This information may include reproductions, translations, and material in the process of development;
d) “Competent Security Authority” means the government authority in a Party responsible for the implementation and supervision of this Agreement. The Competent Security Authority may delegate part of its responsibilities to a delegated competent security authority;
e) “Contractor” means any individual (other than those engaged by a Party under a contract of employment), legal entity or other forms of organisation under the jurisdiction of a Party, entering into or bound by a Classified Contract. This term includes a sub-contractor;
f) “Facility Security Clearance” means the administrative determination by the Competent Security Authority that, from a security viewpoint, a facility can afford adequate security protection to Classified Information, in accordance with its internal law;
g) “Need to Know” means the requirement for an authorised individual, legal entity or other form of organisation to access, have knowledge of, or possess Classified Information in order to be able to perform their official duties or services;
h) “Originating Party” means the Party under whose authority Classified Information has been created;
i) “Personnel Security Clearance” means the administrative determination by the Competent Security Authority that an individual has been security cleared to access and handle Classified Information up to and including a specified classification level, in accordance with its internal law;
j) Program/Project Security Instruction” “means a compilation of security regulations and procedures based on national security policy and supporting directives, which are applied to a specific program or project in order to standardize security procedures;
k) “Providing Party” means the Party or Contractor under its jurisdiction, which provides Classified Information to the Receiving Party under this Agreement;
l) “Receiving Party” means the Party or Contractor under its jurisdiction, which receives Classified Information from the Providing Party under this Agreement;
m) “Security Classification Guide” means a document associated with a Classified Contract specifying the applicable security classification levels of each part of that Classified Contract;
n) “Security Incident” means any unauthorised disclosure, alteration, compromise, loss, access, handling, storage or destruction of Classified Information, contrary to internal law of the Receiving Party and/or this Agreement;
o) “Third Party” means any international organisation, government or state, including individuals, legal entities or other forms of organisation under its jurisdiction, which is not a Party to this Agreement.