ANNEX VSupplementary provisions
ANNEX V SECURITY IN THE EVENT OF EXTERNAL ACTION 1. This Annex sets out provisions for implementing Article 11. 2. Contractors may gain access to FIDUCIA information only in connection with the maintenance of the communication and information systems isolated from the computerised network or when action has to be taken that entails the urgent removal of FIDUCIA information to a place of safety. 3. The security authority shall draw up guidelines for external action covering, in particular, security clearances for the contractors' staff, and also the content of the contracts referred to in this Annex. 4. Documents relating to the tendering procedures and maintenance contracts for the communication and information systems isolated from the computerised network shall be given the FIDUCIA mark when they contain information whose unauthorised disclosure could harm the security of the Union or that of one or more of its Member States or the conduct of their international relations. The security aspects letter annexed to the contract shall contain provisions requiring the contractor to comply with the minimum standards laid down in this decision. Failure to comply with those minimum standards may constitute sufficient grounds for termination of the contract. 5. The contract involving action having to be taken that entails the urgent removal of FIDUCIA information to a place of safety shall include the number of security guards who are to have personnel security clearance. It shall be silent with regard to the procedures to be put in hand. This contract shall not be given the FIDUCIA mark. 6. The contractor may not sub-contract the activities defined in the call for tenders and in the contract involving or entailing access to FIDUCIA information.