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SECRET
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CONFIDENTIAL
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INTERNAL
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Person Responsible
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Creation
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Resources (the regulations agreed on implementing the Ordinance of 29 August 199023 on Classification Procedure for Assignments with Classified Military Content apply.
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Electronically: only with resources authorised by the Coordination Agency (exception: armed forces)
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Electronically: only with resources authorised by the Coordination Agency (exception: armed forces)
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Arbitrary
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Author
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Classification
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Mark every page with:
«SECRET»
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Mark every page with: «CONFIDENTIAL»
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Mark every page with: «INTERNAL»
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Numbering
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Compulsory
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Optional
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None
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Registration
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Coordination Agency's forms
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List of recipients
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Optional
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Storage or preservation
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Electronic
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Only on resources authorised by the Coordination Agency; encrypted on workplace systems or encrypted on removable data carriers
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Encrypted on workplace systems or encrypted on removable data carriers
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Accessible to authorised persons only
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Author or confidant
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Keys are stored separately from the encrypted information and kept under lock and key
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Physical
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Safe
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Secured container
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Accessible to authorised persons only
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Transfer or transmission and reception
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Telephone, mobile
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Encrypted or protected transfer pathway or security concept
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Encoded or encrypted
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Encoded or within federal network
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Author or confidant
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Fax
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Encryption or protected transfer pathway or security concept
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Encryption or protected transfer pathway or security concept
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Permitted
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E-mail (or annex thereof)
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Encrypted and reproducible
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Encrypted
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Permitted, protection necessary, e g. federal network
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Data transmission
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Encryption or protected transfer pathway
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Encryption or protected transfer pathway
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Permitted, protection necessary, e.g. federal network
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Oral statements
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Only to authorised persons, in areas where eavesdropping is impossible
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Transmission or dispatch and reception
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Personal hand-over
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Only permitted against receipt
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Permitted, in the case of numbered editions against receipt only
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Permitted
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Author or confidant
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Postal system, courier
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Restricted and only permitted by special federal courier
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Permitted in restricted cases, in the case of numbered editions by registered letter
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Permitted in restricted cases
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Use
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Processing with IT applications (with the exception of arrangements made pertaining to secrecy protection procedures)
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Only with resources authorised by the Coordination Agency and with the use of security software that satisfies federal standards
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Only with resources authorised by the Coordination Agency (exception: armed forces) and with the use of security software that satisfies federal standards
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Permitted
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Author or confidant
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Printing
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Permitted in restricted cases
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Permitted in restricted cases
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Permitted
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Copying
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Restricted and exclusively permitted at the author's consent
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Permitted in restricted cases
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Permitted
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Removal from permanent location
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Permitted in restricted cases
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Permitted in restricted cases
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Permitted
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Information management
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Regular evaluation of classification and recipients
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At least every five years and always with due regard to obligation to offer to the Federal Archives (Art. 14)
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For numbered editions only: at least every five years and always with due regard to the obligation to offer to the Federal Archives (Art. 14)
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None
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Author
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Withdrawal and withdrawal obligation
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Compulsory
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Compulsory if numbered
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None
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Author or confidant
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Archiving
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Obligation to offer under the archiving legislation (Art. 17).
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author or confidant
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Destruction or deletion (as long as there is no deposit obligation under the archiving legislation)
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Destruction by author only and Permitted in restricted cases
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Permitted in restricted cases, in the case of numbered editions by author only
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Permitted in restricted cases
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