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The Secretary-General shall be the GSC’s Security Authority. In that capacity, the Secretary-General shall: implement the Council’s security policy and keep it under review; coordinate with Member States’ NSAs on all security matters relating to the protection of classified information relevant for the Council’s activities; grant GSC officials, other servants and seconded national experts authorisation for access to information classified CONFIDENTIEL UE/EU CONFIDENTIAL or above in accordance with Article 7(3); as appropriate, order investigations into any actual or suspected compromise or loss of classified information held by or originating in the Council and request the relevant security authorities to assist in such investigations; undertake periodic inspections of the security arrangements for protecting classified information on GSC premises; undertake periodic visits to assess the security arrangements for protecting EUCI in Union bodies, agencies and entities which apply this Decision or the principles thereof; undertake, jointly and in agreement with the NSA concerned, periodic assessments of the security arrangements for protecting EUCI in Member States’ services and premises; ensure that security measures are coordinated as necessary with the competent authorities of the Member States which are responsible for protecting classified information and, as appropriate, third States or international organisations, including on the nature of threats to the security of EUCI and the means of protection against them; and enter into the administrative arrangements referred to in Article 13(2)(b). The Security Office of the GSC shall be at the disposal of the Secretary-General to assist in those responsibilities.

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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.