{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-2247/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-2247/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2019/2247",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision (EU) 2019/2247 of 19 December 2019 amending Decision 2013/488/EU on the security rules for protecting EU classified information",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-2247",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Council Decision (EU) 2019/2247\nof 19 December 2019\namending Decision 2013/488/EU on the security rules for protecting EU classified information\nTHE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 240(3) thereof,\nHaving regard to Council Decision 2009/937/EU of 1 December 2009 adopting the Council’s Rules of Procedure, and in particular Article 24 thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nAppendix B to Council Decision 2013/488/EU contains a table of equivalence of security classifications.\n(2)\nAppendix C to that decision contains a list of national security authorities (NSAs).\n(3)\nSweden has notified the General Secretariat of the Council of changes to its security classifications and to its NSAs.\n(4)\nFurthermore, Bulgaria, the Czechia, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Spain, Croatia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Austria, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Finland and the United Kingdom have notified the General Secretariat of the Council of changes to their respective NSAs.\n(5)\nDecision 2013/488/EU should therefore be amended accordingly,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 325, 11.12.2009, p. 35."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Council Decision 2013/488/EU of 23 September 2013 on the security rules for protecting EU classified information (OJ L 274, 15.10.2013, p. 1)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2019/2247/introduction",
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  },
  "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."
}