{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2010-767/annex/division-EUROPEAN/division-5/division-5.4/division-B",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2010/767",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 9 December 2010 amending Decision C(2007) 2286 on the adoption of ERC Rules for the submission of proposals and the related evaluation, selection and award procedures for indirect actions under the Ideas Specific Programme of the Seventh Framework Programme (2007 to 2013) (Text with EEA relevance) (2010/767/EU)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2010-767",
  "path": "annex/division/EUROPEAN/division/5/division/5.4/division/B",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "(B)",
  "heading": "Identification of potential classified ERC Actions",
  "text": "A security-sensitive ERC action is an action that may need to handle classified information.\nA ‘security considerations’ flag will be associated with a proposal:\nwhen the applicant declares a proposal as sensitive;\nif the expert evaluators or the ERCEA detect or suspect any of the following conditions:\nClassified information is, or may be, used as background information,\nSome foreground is planned to be classified,\nWhenever a ‘security considerations’ flag is associated with a proposal, the circumstances of the planned work will be further scrutinised according to the procedure described in section C below.\nProposals, if so requested in the relevant Guide for Applicants, must identify – if needed – the background required for carrying the ERC action and the classified foreground that will be produced by the action. In the case of a proposal involving classified information (background and/or foreground), a ‘Security Aspect Letter’ (SAL) and its annexed ‘Security Classification Guide’ (SCG) must be part of the proposal.\nThe SCG will cover:\nThe level of classification of background and foreground information,\nWhich participant will have access to what information,\nIn addition, the following documents will be requested:\nA copy of the ‘Facility Security Clearances’ (FSC) (or the FSC requests). The validity of the FSC will be checked by the Commission Security Directorate through the appropriate formal channel with the ‘National Security Authorities’ (NSAs) involved,\nFormal written authorization by the relevant security authorities to use the classified background information.\nThe SAL and the SCG, accompanied by supporting documents, will also be examined in the scrutiny procedure described below.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "‘Security Aspects Letter (SAL)’: ‘a set of special contractual conditions, issued by the contracting authority, which forms an integral part of a classified contract involving access to or generation of EU classified information, and that identifies the security requirements or those elements of the classified contract requiring security protection’, as defined in section 27 of Decision 2001/844/EC, ECSC, Euratom."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "As defined in Decision 2001/844/EC, ECSC, Euratom."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2010/767/annex/division/EUROPEAN/division/5/division/5.4/division/B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:15:56.395033+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}