Council Decision (EU) 2025/1540

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THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 240(3) thereof,Having regard to Council Decision 2009/937/EU of 1 December 2009 adopting the Council’s Rules of Procedure^note, and in particular Article 24 thereof,Whereas:

(1)Appendix B to Council Decision 2013/488/EU^note contains a table of equivalence of security classifications.

(2)Appendix C to Decision 2013/488/EU contains a list of national security authorities (NSAs).

(3)On 14 April 2025, Belgium notified the General Secretariat of the Council of changes to its security classifications. Those changes introduce an additional fourth Belgian classification level ‘RESTREINT (Loi 11.12.1998) – BEPERKT (Wet 11.12.1998)’.

(4)On 12 June 2025, Belgium notified the General Secretariat of the Council of changes to its NSA regarding the NSA’s contact details and the competent ministry.

(5)Decision 2013/488/EU should therefore be amended accordingly,

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