Article 13d Integrity and legibility of informationF1

F2Great Britain's import control system shall protect the integrity of the information encoded in accordance with this Regulation.

In particular, it shall offer the following guarantees:

1. (a)

   it shall allow each user to be unequivocally identified and shall incorporate effective control measures of access rights in order to protect against illegal, malicious or unauthorised access, deletion, alteration or movement of the information, files and metadata;

2. (b)

   it shall be equipped with physical protection systems against intrusions and environmental incidents and software protection against cyber-attacks;

3. (c)

   it shall safeguard stored data in an environment which is secure in both physical and software terms;

4. (d)

   it shall prevent, by various means, any unauthorised changes and incorporate integrity mechanisms to check if the information has been altered over time;

5. (e)

   it shall keep an audit trail for each essential stage of the procedure;

6. (f)

   it shall provide reliable format conversion and migration procedures in order to guarantee that the information is legible and accessible throughout the entire storage period required;

7. (g)

   it shall have sufficiently detailed and up-to-date functional and technical documentation on the operation and characteristics of the system, that documentation being accessible at all times to the organisational entities responsible for the functional and/or technical specifications.