- assets
means all movable and immovable property and possessions of the Commission;
- CIS
means any system enabling the handling of information in electronic form, including all assets required for its operation, as well as the infrastructure, organisation, personnel and information resources;
- Commission department
means a Commission Directorate-General or service, or a Cabinet of a Member of the Commission;
- Control of risks
shall mean any security measure that can reasonably be expected to effectively control a risk to security by its prevention, mitigation, avoidance or transfer;
- crisis situation
means a circumstance, event, incident or emergency (or a succession or combination thereof) posing a major or an immediate threat to security in the Commission regardless of its origin;
- data
means information in a form that allows it to be communicated, recorded or processed;
- immediate threat to security
means a threat to security which occurs with no or with extremely short advance warning;
- major threat to security
means a threat to security that can reasonably be expected to lead to loss of life, serious injury or harm, significant damage to property, compromise of highly sensitive information, disruption of IT systems or of essential operational capacities of the Commission;
- Member of the Commission responsible for security
means a Member of the Commission under whose authority the Directorate-General for Human Resources and Security falls;
- personal data
means personal data as defined in Article 2(a) of Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
- premises
shall mean any immovable or assimilated property and possessions of the Commission;
- Prevention of risk
shall mean security measures that can reasonably be expected to impede, delay or stop a risk to security;
- risk to security
means the combination of the threat level, the level of vulnerability and the possible impact of an event;
- security in the Commission
means the security of persons, assets and information in the Commission, and in particular the physical integrity of persons and assets, the integrity, confidentiality and availability of information and communication and information systems, as well as the unobstructed functioning of Commission operations;
- security measure
means any measure taken in accordance with this Decision for purposes of controlling risks to security;
- Staff Regulations
means the Staff Regulations of officials of the European Union, as laid down by Regulation (EEC, Euratom, ECSC) No 259/68 of the Council and its amending acts;
- threat to security
means an event or agent that can reasonably be expected to adversely affect security if not responded to and controlled;
- vulnerability
means a weakness of any nature that can reasonably be expected to adversely affect security in the Commission, if exploited by one or more threats.