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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2010-912/article-10",
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  "legislation": "eur/2010/912",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) No 912/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 September 2010 setting up the European GNSS Agency, repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1321/2004 on the establishment of structures for the management of the European satellite radio navigation programmes and amending Regulation (EC) No 683/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2010-912",
  "path": "article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "General principles",
  "text": "The security accreditation activities for European GNSS systems referred to in this Chapter shall be carried out in accordance with the following principles:\n(a) security accreditation activities and decisions shall be undertaken in a context of collective responsibility for the security of the Union and of the Member States;\n(b) efforts shall be made for decisions to be reached by consensus;\n(c) security accreditation activities shall be carried out using a risk assessment and management approach, considering risks to the security of the European GNSS systems as well as the impact on cost or schedule of any measure to mitigate the risks, taking into account the objective not to lower the general level of security of the systems;\n(d) security accreditation decisions shall be prepared and taken by professionals who are duly qualified in the field of accrediting complex systems, who have an appropriate level of security clearance, and who shall act objectively;\n(e) efforts shall be made to consult all relevant parties with an interest in security issues;\n(f) security accreditation activities shall be executed by all relevant stakeholders according to a security accreditation strategy without prejudice to the role of the European Commission defined in Regulation (EU) No 1285/2013;\n(g) security accreditation decisions shall, following the process defined in the relevant security accreditation strategy, be based on local security accreditation decisions taken by the respective national security accreditation authorities of the Member States;\n(h) a permanent, transparent and fully understandable monitoring process shall ensure that the security risks for European GNSS systems are known, that security measures are defined to reduce such risks to an acceptable level in view of the security needs of the Union and of its Member States and for the smooth running of the programmes and that those measures are applied in accordance with the concept of defence in depth. The effectiveness of such measures shall be continuously evaluated. The process relating to security risk assessment and management shall be conducted as an iterative process jointly by the stakeholders of the programmes;\n(i) security accreditation decisions shall be taken in a strictly independent manner, including with regard to the Commission and other bodies responsible for the implementation of the programmes and for service provision, as well as with regard to the Executive Director and the Administrative Board of the Agency;\n(j) security accreditation activities shall be carried out with due regard for the need for adequate coordination between the Commission and the authorities responsible for implementing security provisions;\n(k) EU classified information shall be handled and protected by all stakeholders involved in the implementation of the programmes in accordance with the basic principles and minimum standards set out in the Council’s and the Commission’s respective security rules on the protection of EU classified information.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Regulation (EU) No 512/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 amending Regulation (EU) No 912/2010 setting up the European GNSS Agency."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2010/912/article/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:50:35.106735+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."
}