Each EUCI registry shall be managed by a Registry Control Officer (‘RCO’).

The RCO shall be appropriately security-cleared.

The RCO shall be subject to the supervision of the LSO within the Commission department, as far as the application of the provisions regarding the handling of EUCI documents and compliance with the relevant security rules, standards and guidelines is concerned.

Within his responsibility for managing the EUCI Registry to which he has been assigned, the RCO shall assume the following overall tasks in accordance with this Decision and the relevant implementing rules, standards and guidelines:

• manage operations relating to the registration, preservation, reproduction, translation, transmission, dispatch and destruction or transfer to the historical archives service of EUCI,

• verify periodically the need to maintain the classification of information,

• assume any other tasks related to the protection of EUCI defined in implementing rules.