Zakon o ratifikaciji Sporazuma med državami pogodbenicami Konvencije o ustanovitvi Evropske vesoljske agencije in Evropsko vesoljsko agencijo o varovanju in izmenjavi tajnih podatkov (MEVAVITP)

Ratificira se Sporazum med državami pogodbenicami Konvencije o ustanovitvi Evropske vesoljske agencije in Evropsko vesoljsko agencijo o varovanju in izmenjavi tajnih podatkov, sestavljen 19. avgusta 2002 v Parizu.

Sporazum se v izvirniku v angleškem jeziku in v prevodu v slovenskem jeziku glasi: The States Parties to the Convention for the establishment of a European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Space Agency, hereinafter referred to as "the Parties"; – CONSIDERING the Convention for the establishment of a European Space Agency (hereinafter referred to as "the ESA Convention") entered into force on 30 October 1980 and in particular Article III and Article XI.5.m. of this Convention; – CONSIDERING Chapter V of the rules on Information, Data and Intellectual Property ESA/C/CLV/Rules 5 (Final) adopted by the Council on 19 December 2001; – RECOGNISING that the activities aimed at achieving co-operation among the Member States in space research and technology and their space applications might require the exchange of classified information and related material among the Parties; – NOTING the necessity to ensure an appropriate level of protection of classified information within the Agency and its Member States and the need therefore to set up an appropriate legal instrument, as stated in ESA Council's Resolution on the creation of a Working Group on the Security of Information adopted by the Council under ESA/C/CLI/Res.8 (final); have agreed as follows: For the purpose of this Agreement, classified information means any information, document or material in whatever form whose unauthorised disclosure could damage the interests of one or more of the Parties and which has been so designated by security classification. The Parties shall: 1. Protect and safeguard according to agreed security principles and minimum standards: (a) classified information, marked as such, which is originated by ESA or which is submitted to ESA by a Member State; (b) classified information, marked as such, of any Member State, submitted to another Member State in support of an ESA programme, project or contract; 2. Maintain the security classification of information as defined under

(1)above and safeguard it accordingly; 3. Use classified information as defined under

(1)above only for purposes laid down in the ESA Convention and the decisions and resolutions pertaining to that Convention; 4. Not disclose such information as defined under (l) above to non-ESA Member States or bodies under their jurisdiction or to any other international organisation without the prior written consent of the originator. The Parties shall implement ESA security standards to ensure a common degree of protection for classified information. 1. The States Parties shall ensure that all persons of their respective nationality who, in the conduct of their official duties require access, or whose duties or function may afford access to classified information provided for or exchanged under this Agreement are appropriately security cleared before they are granted access to such information and material. 2. The Parties shall ensure that access to classified information exchanged under the present agreement shall be authorised only for persons having a need to know for carrying out their duties or missions. 3. Security clearance procedures shall be designed to establish whether an individual can, taking into account his loyalty and trustworthiness, be granted access to classified information. 4. Upon request, each of the States Parties shall co-operate with the other States Parties in carrying out their respective security clearance procedures. The Director General of ESA shall ensure that the relevant provisions of this Agreement are applied in the headquarters, in the establishments and in the other facilities of the Agency. 1. The Parties shall investigate all cases where it is acknowledged or suspected that classified information provided or generated under this Agreement has been compromised or lost. 2. Each Party shall inform quickly and thoroughly the others, where necessary, of any details related to the case and of the eventual results of the investigation as well as of any corrective measures taken to prevent the repetition of any such disclosure. In cases where a representative of a Member State or the Director General of ESA or a staff member or an expert of ESA is involved in a legal pursuit regarding the unauthorised disclosure of classified information, the Member State, the Council and the Director General respectively shall, in compliance with Articles XIV.2 and XXI.1 and 2 and XXIV of Annex 1 of the ESA Convention, have the duty to waive the immunity. The present Agreement in no way prevents the Parties from making other Agreements relating to the exchange of classified information originated by them and not affecting the scope of the present Agreement. 1. Each Party may recommend amendments to this Agreement. 2. Any amendment to the present Agreement shall enter into force thirty days after the Government of France has received notification of acceptance from all Parties. The Government of France shall notify all Parties of the date of entry into force of any such amendment. 1. This Agreement shall be open for signature by the Parties to the ESA Convention and shall be subject to ratification, acceptance or approval. The instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval shall be deposited with the Government of France. 2. This Agreement shall enter into force thirty days after the date of deposit by two signatory States of their instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval. It shall enter into force for each of other signatory State thirty days after the deposit of its instrument of ratification, acceptance or approval. 1. The accession to this Agreement by any new State Party to the ESA Convention shall be in accordance with Article XXII of the Convention. The Agreement shall enter into force in respect of each acceding State thirty days after the day of the deposit of its instrument of accession. 2. Instruments of accession shall be deposited with the Government of France. 1. This Agreement may be denounced by written notice by any State Party given to the depository, which shall inform all the other Parties of such notice. Such denunciation shall take effect one year after the receipt of notification by the depository. 2. A State Party denouncing this Agreement shall remain to be bound by its obligation to protect and safeguard classified information to which it has gained access on the basis of this Agreement. The same applies to a State Party to the present Agreement denouncing the ESA Convention in accordance with its Article XXIV or in the case of dissolution of the European Space Agency in accordance with Article XXV of the Convention. The Government of France shall notify ESA and all signatory and acceding States of the deposit of each instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval, accession or denunciation. In witness whereof the undersigned, duly authorised thereto by their respective Governments, have signed this Agreement. Done in Paris, this 19 day of August 2002, in a single copy in the English and French languages, each text being equally authoritative, which shall be deposited with the Government of France and of which certified copies shall be transmitted by that Government to each of the signatories. Države pogodbenice Konvencije o ustanovitvi Evropske vesoljske agencije (ESA) in Evropska vesoljska agencija, v nadaljnjem besedilu: pogodbenice, so se – OB UPOŠTEVANJU, da je Konvencija o ustanovitvi Evropske vesoljske agencije (v nadaljnjem besedilu: konvencija) začela veljati 30. oktobra 1980 ter zlasti glede na njen III. člen in pododstavek m petega odstavka XI. člena; – OB UPOŠTEVANJU V. poglavja Pravilnika o informacijah, podatkih in intelektualni lastnini ESA/C/CLV/Rules 5 (Final), ki ga je svet sprejel 19. decembra 2001; – OB PRIZNAVANJU, da morda morajo pogodbenice v zvezi z dejavnostmi, namenjenimi sodelovanju med državami članicami pri vesoljskih raziskavah in tehnologiji ter njihovi uporabi v vesolju, med seboj izmenjati tajne podatke in z njimi povezana sredstva; – OB UGOTOVITVI, da je treba zagotoviti ustrezno raven varovanja tajnih podatkov v agenciji in njenih državah članicah ter zato uvesti ustrezen pravni akt, kot je navedeno v Resoluciji sveta Evropske vesoljske agencije o ustanovitvi delovne skupine za varnost podatkov, ki jo je svet sprejel pod oznako ESA/C/CLI/Res.8 (final), dogovorile:

V tem sporazumu tajni podatek pomeni podatek, dokument ali sredstvo v kateri koli obliki, katerega nepooblaščeno razkritje bi lahko škodovalo interesom ene pogodbenice ali več pogodbenic in ki je označen s stopnjo tajnosti.

Pogodbenice: 1. skladno z dogovorjenimi varnostnimi načeli in minimalnimi standardi varujejo in zaščitijo: (a) tajne podatke, ki so označeni s stopnjo tajnosti in so nastali v Evropski vesoljski agenciji ali jih je Evropski vesoljski agenciji dala država članica, (b) tajne podatke države članice, označene s stopnjo tajnosti in dane drugi državi članici v okviru programa, projekta ali pogodbe Evropske vesoljske agencije; 2. ohranijo stopnjo tajnosti podatkov, določenih v prvem odstavku zgoraj, in jih ustrezno varujejo; 3. uporabijo tajne podatke, določene v prvem odstavku zgoraj, samo za namene, ki so določeni v konvenciji ter odločitvah in resolucijah v zvezi s konvencijo; 4. ne razkrivajo podatkov, določenih v prvem odstavku zgoraj, državam, ki niso članice Evropske vesoljske agencije, ali telesom v njihovi pristojnosti ali nobeni drugi mednarodni organizaciji brez predhodnega pisnega soglasja tistega, pri katerem je podatek nastal.

Za zagotavljanje enake ravni varovanja tajnih podatkov pogodbenice izvajajo varnostne standarde Evropske vesoljske agencije.

1. Države pogodbenice zagotovijo, da so vsi njihovi državljani, ki pri opravljanju svojih uradnih nalog potrebujejo dostop do tajnih podatkov ali katerih naloge ali dolžnosti jim lahko omogočijo dostop do tajnih podatkov, danih ali izmenjanih po tem sporazumu, ustrezno varnostno preverjeni, preden jim je dovoljeno dostopati do takih podatkov in sredstev. 2. Pogodbenice zagotovijo, da se dostop do tajnih podatkov, izmenjanih po tem sporazumu, dovoli samo osebam s potrebo po seznanitvi zaradi opravljanja njihovih nalog ali dolžnosti. 3. Namen postopkov varnostnega preverjanja je ugotoviti, ali se osebi, ob upoštevanju njene lojalnosti in verodostojnosti, lahko dovoli dostopati do tajnih podatkov. 4. Na podlagi zaprosila vsaka država pogodbenica sodeluje z drugimi državami pogodbenicami pri izvajanju njihovih postopkov varnostnega preverjanja.

Generalni direktor Evropske vesoljske agencije zagotovi, da se uporabljajo ustrezne določbe tega sporazuma na sedežu, v enotah in drugih objektih in napravah agencije.

1. Pogodbenice raziščejo vse primere, za katere je znano ali se sumi, da so bili v njih ogroženi ali izgubljeni tajni podatki, ki so bili dani ali so nastali na podlagi tega sporazuma. 2. Vsaka pogodbenica po potrebi hitro in temeljito obvesti druge o podrobnostih primera in morebitnih rezultatih preiskave ter o vseh sprejetih popravljalnih ukrepih za preprečitev ponovnega razkritja.

Če je predstavnik države članice ali generalni direktor Evropske vesoljske agencije ali uslužbenec ali strokovnjak Evropske vesoljske agencije udeležen v sodnem postopku zaradi nepooblaščenega razkritja tajnih podatkov, se morajo država članica, svet in generalni direktor odreči imuniteti v skladu z drugim odstavkom XIV. člena, prvim in drugim odstavkom XXI. člena in XXIV. členom priloge 1 h konvenciji.

Ta sporazum pogodbenicam ne preprečuje sklepati drugih sporazumov o izmenjavi tajnih podatkov, ki so nastali v pogodbenicah in ne vplivajo na področje uporabe tega sporazuma.

1. Vsaka pogodbenica lahko predlaga spremembe tega sporazuma. 2. Sprememba sporazuma začne veljati trideset dni po dnevu, ko francoska vlada prejme uradna obvestila vseh pogodbenic o sprejetju. Francoska vlada vse pogodbenice uradno obvesti o dnevu začetka veljavnosti vsake spremembe.

1. Sporazum je pogodbenicam konvencije na voljo za podpis in se ratificira, sprejme ali odobri. Listine o ratifikaciji, sprejetju ali odobritvi se deponirajo pri francoski vladi. 2. Sporazum začne veljati trideset dni po dnevu, ko sta dve državi podpisnici deponirali svoji listini o ratifikaciji, sprejetju ali odobritvi. Za vsako drugo državo podpisnico začne veljati trideset dni po dnevu deponiranja njene listine o ratifikaciji, sprejetju ali odobritvi.

1. Nova država pogodbenica konvencije pristopi k sporazumu v skladu z XXII. členom konvencije. Za vsako državo pristopnico začne sporazum veljati trideset dni po dnevu deponiranja njene listine o pristopu. 2. Listine o pristopu se deponirajo pri francoski vladi.

1. Država pogodbenica lahko sporazum odpove s pisnim uradnim obvestilom depozitarju, ki o takem obvestilu obvesti vse druge pogodbenice. Odpoved začne veljati eno leto po dnevu, ko depozitar prejme uradno obvestilo. 2. Država pogodbenica, ki je sporazum odpovedala, mora še naprej varovati in zaščititi tajne podatke, do katerih ima dostop na podlagi tega sporazuma. Enako velja za državo pogodbenico tega sporazuma, ki je v skladu s XXIV. členom konvencije odpovedala konvencijo, ali v primeru razpustitve Evropske vesoljske agencije v skladu s XXV. členom konvencije.

Francoska vlada Evropsko vesoljsko agencijo in vse države podpisnice in pristopnice uradno obvesti o deponiranju vsake listine o ratifikaciji, sprejetju, odobritvi, pristopu ali odpovedi. V potrditev tega so spodaj podpisani, ki so jih njihove vlade za to pravilno pooblastile, podpisali ta sporazum. Sestavljeno v Parizu 19. avgusta 2002 v enem izvirniku v angleškem in francoskem jeziku, pri čemer sta obe besedili enako verodostojni, ki se deponira pri francoski vladi in katerega overjene kopije ta vlada pošlje vsem podpisnicam.

Za izvajanje sporazuma skrbi Urad Vlade Republike Slovenije za varovanje tajnih podatkov.

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