Article 35

Europol shall take the necessary technical and organisational measures to ensure the implementation of this Decision. Measures shall be considered necessary where the effort they involve is proportionate to the objective they are designed to achieve in terms of protection. In respect of automated data processing at Europol, each Member State and Europol shall implement measures designed to: deny unauthorised persons access to data-processing equipment used for processing personal data (equipment access control); prevent the unauthorised reading, copying, modification or removal of data media (data media control); prevent the unauthorised input of data and the unauthorised inspection, modification or deletion of stored personal data (storage control); prevent the use of automated data-processing systems by unauthorised persons using data-communication equipment (user control); ensure that persons authorised to use an automated data-processing system have access only to the data covered by their access authorisation (data access control); ensure that it is possible to verify and establish to which bodies personal data may be or have been transmitted using data communication equipment (communication control); ensure that it is possible to verify and establish which personal data have been input into automated data-processing systems and when and by whom the data were input (input control); prevent the unauthorised reading, copying, modification or deletion of personal data during transfers of personal data or during the transportation of data media (transport control); ensure that installed systems may, in the event of interruption, be restored immediately (recovery); ensure that the functions of the system perform without fault, that the appearance of faults in the functions is immediately reported (reliability) and that stored data cannot be corrupted by system malfunctions (integrity).

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-01 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.