IV. ADMINISTRATIVE ARRANGEMENTS

Where a long-term need exists to exchange information classified as a general rule no higher than RESTREINT UE/EU RESTRICTED with a third State or international organisation, and where the Security Committee has established that the party in question does not have a sufficiently developed security system for it to be possible to enter into a security of information agreement, the Secretary-General may, subject to approval by the Council, enter into an administrative arrangement on behalf of the GSC with the relevant authorities of the third State or international organisation in question. Where, for urgent operational reasons, a framework for exchanging classified information needs to be put in place rapidly, exceptionally the Council may decide that an administrative arrangement be entered into for exchanging information of a higher classification level. Administrative arrangements shall as a general rule take the form of an Exchange of Letters. An assessment visit referred to in paragraph 9 shall be conducted and the report, or in the absence of such a report the report referred to in paragraph 12, forwarded to, and deemed satisfactory by, the Security Committee before EUCI is actually released to the third State or international organisation in question. No EUCI shall be exchanged under an administrative arrangement by electronic means unless explicitly provided for in the arrangement.

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