Decision (EU) 2016/2386

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This text since 25 Dec 2016law://eu/dec/2016/2386/art_8@2026-11-14

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Article 8Physical security#

1.‘Physical security’ means the application of physical and technical protective measures to prevent unauthorised access to FIDUCIA information.

2.Physical security measures shall be designed to prevent surreptitious or forced entry into the FIDUCIA office premises by an intruder, to deter, impede and detect unauthorised acts and to enable a distinction to be drawn between persons with and without authority to have access to FIDUCIA information in accordance with the need-to-know principle. Such measures shall be determined on the basis of a risk management process.

3.Physical security measures shall be put in place for the FIDUCIA office premises in which FIDUCIA information is handled and stored. These measures shall be designed to ensure protection equivalent to that afforded to SECRET UE/EU SECRET EUCI in accordance with the rules on the protection of EUCI applicable within the EU institutions. No FIDUCIA information may be stored or consulted outside the FIDUCIA office premises created for that purpose within an area that has itself been secured.

4.Only approved equipment or devices in conformity with the rules on the protection of EUCI applicable within the EU institutions shall be used for protecting FIDUCIA information.

5.Provisions for implementing this Article are set out in Annex II.

Source: EUR-Lex, © European Union, 1998-2026. Reuse authorised under Decision 2011/833/EU.

Key facts

Type: Decision · (EU) 2016/2386
Adopted: 20 Sept 2016
In force: 25 Dec 2016
Made by: Court of Justice of the European Union
Official: EUR-Lex 32016D2386 · ELI

Topics

confidentiality data protection General Court (EU)judicial proceedings protection of communications Provisions governing the Institutions

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document
means any information, whatever its physical form or characteristics;
European Union classified information
(EUCI) means any information or any material identified as such according to the security classification of the European Union under the rules applicable in that respect within the EU institutions, covered by one of the following levels of classification:
holder
means a duly authorised person who, on the basis of an established need to know, is in possession of FIDUCIA information and who is, in consequence, required to ensure its protection;
information
means any written or oral information, whatever its medium or author;
Management of FIDUCIA information
means the application of administrative measures designed to protect FIDUCIA information throughout the proceedings before the Court of Justice, and to control it in order to help deter and detect deliberate or accidental compromise or loss of such information.
Physical security
means the application of physical and technical protective measures to prevent unauthorised access to FIDUCIA information.
security authority
means the authority responsible for the security of the Court of Justice of the European Union designated by the latter, which may delegate, in whole or in part, the performance of the tasks provided for by this decision;
Security in the event of external action
means the application of measures designed to ensure the protection of FIDUCIA information by contractors required to carry out work in connection with the maintenance of communication and information systems isolated from the computerised network or when action has to be taken that entails the urgent removal of FIDUCIA information to a place of safety.