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The Rules on security as set out in the Annex to Decision 2001/844/EC, ECSC, Euratom are amended as follows:
in Section 4.2(e) ‘President of the Commission’ is replaced by ‘Director of the Commission Security Directorate’;
Section 13 is replaced by the following text:
A Commission Security Board shall be set up. It shall consist of the Director-General for Administration and Personnel, who shall have the chair, a Member of the Cabinet of the Commissioner responsible for security matters, a Member of the Cabinet of the President, the Deputy Secretary-General who chairs the Commission crisis management group, the Directors-General of the Legal Service, External Relations, Justice, Freedom and Security, the Joint Research Centre, Informatics and the Internal Audit Service and the Director of the Commission Security Directorate, or their representatives. Other Commission officials may be invited. Its remit is to assess security measures within the Commission and to make recommendations in this domain to the Member of the Commission responsible for security matters.’;
in Appendix 2, ‘President’ is replaced by ‘Member of the Commission responsible for security matters’;
in point 10(c) of Appendix 4, ‘President’ is replaced by ‘Director of the Commission Security Directorate’;
in point 7 of Appendix 5, ‘President’ is replaced by ‘Member of the Commission responsible for security matters’;
throughout the text of the rules on security and its Appendices:
‘Commission Security Office’ and ‘Commission Security Service’ are replaced by: ‘Commission Security Directorate’;
‘Head of the Commission Security Office’ is replaced by ‘Director of the Commission Security Directorate’;
a new recital is added after recital 7 of the Annex, reading: ‘These provisions are without prejudice to Article 286 of the Treaty and to Regulation (EC) 45/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2000 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by the Community institutions and bodies and on the free movement of such data.’
This Decision shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Done at Brussels, 31 January 2006.
For the Commission
Siim Kallas
Vice-President
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