Definitions
Article 2
For the purposes of this Decision: (1) ‘ECB’s predecessors’ means the Committee for the Study of Economic and Monetary Union, the Committee of Governors of the Central Banks of the Member States of the European Economic Community, the European Monetary Cooperation Fund and the European Monetary Institute; (2) ‘ECB archives’ means: (a) all documents of whatever type and in whatever medium which have originated in or been received by the ECB or the NCBs in connection with the performance of the tasks of the ESCB and the Eurosystem, irrespective of whether they are held by the ECB or the NCBs; and (b) all documents of whatever type and in whatever medium which have originated in or been received by the ECB’s predecessors and are held by the ECB; (3) ‘ECB historical archives’ means all documents of historical or administrative value that are part of the ECB archives and have been selected for permanent preservation; (4) ‘date of creation’ means: (a) in the case of digital documents that are created within the ECB’s document management system, the date on which the document was last edited or on which the latest version was added; (b) in the case of paper documents that are placed in a physical file, the date of the most recent substantive document in the file; (c) in the case of paper documents that are in bound volume format, the year of the most recent substantive entry in the volume or of the most recent substantive comment or annotation, whichever is the later; and (d) in the case of an image, such as an architectural drawing, photograph or moving image, the date of creation or the year of the last amendment to the image or drawing, whichever is the later; (5) ‘national central bank’ or ‘NCB’ means a central bank of a Member State; (6) ‘third party’ means any natural or legal person or any entity outside the ESCB; (7) ‘appraisal’ means an ongoing sorting process of ECB archives to identify documents that should be preserved for historical archiving purposes; (8) ‘preservation’ means the set of activities necessary to ensure continued access to, and to minimise the loss of information content in, documents selected to be part of the ECB historical archives; (9) ‘classified document’ means an ECB historical archives document that has been assigned one of the four following security classifications under the ECB’s confidentiality regime ( 7 ) that does not authorise its release to the public, namely: ‘ECB-SECRET’, ‘ECB-CONFIDENTIAL’, ‘ECB-RESTRICTED’ and ‘ECB-UNRESTRICTED’; (10) ‘declassified document’ means an ECB historical archives document that has been assigned the security classification of ‘ECB-PUBLIC’ under the ECB’s confidentiality regime; (11) ‘personal data’ means personal data within the meaning of Article 3, point (1) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725; (12) ‘children’s personal data’ means personal data of children below the age of 13 years; (13) ‘sensitive personal data’ means special categories of personal data referred to in Article 10 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725, personal data relating to criminal convictions and offences referred to in Article 11 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 and children’s personal data; (14) ‘controller’ means controller within the meaning of Article 2, point (1), of Decision (EU) 2020/655 of the European Central Bank (ECB/2020/28) ( 8 ) .