{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2015-444/article-47",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2015/444",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision (EU, Euratom) 2015/444 of 13 March 2015 on the security rules for protecting EU classified information",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2015-444",
  "path": "article/47",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Visits in connection with classified contracts",
  "text": "1. Where a Commission staff member or contractors' or grant beneficiaries' personnel require access to information classified CONFIDENTIEL UE/EU CONFIDENTIAL or SECRET UE/EU SECRET in each other's premises for the performance of a classified contract or grant agreement, visits shall be arranged in liaison with the NSAs, DSAs or any other competent security authority concerned. The Commission Security Authority shall be informed of such visits. However, in the context of specific programmes or projects, the NSAs, DSAs or any other competent security authority may also agree on a procedure whereby such visits can be arranged directly.\n2. All visitors shall hold an appropriate security clearance and have a ‘need-to-know’ for access to the EUCI related to the classified contract.\n3. Visitors shall be given access only to EUCI related to the purpose of the visit.\n4. More detailed provisions shall be set out in implementing rules.\n5. Compliance with the provisions regarding visits in connection with classified contracts, set out in this Decision and in the implementing rules referred to in paragraph 4, shall be mandatory.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2015/444/article/47",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:14:26.020475+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."
}