Zakon o ratifikaciji Varnostnega sporazuma med Republiko Slovenijo in Organizacijo Severnoatlantskega pakta (MVSOSP)

The Government of Slovenia
    represented by
    His Excellency, Dr. Boris Cizelj, Ambassador
    Permanent Liaison Officer to NATO Headquarters
    The North Atlantic Treaty Organization
    represented by
    Dr. Manfred Wörner,
    Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
    Considering that the Republic of Slovenia is a Partner Country in the North Atlantic Cooperation Council (NACC)/Partnership for Peace (PfP);
    Having agreed to consult on political and security-related issues and expand and intensify political and military cooperation throughout Europe;
    Realizing that effective co-operation in these regards entails the exchange of sensitive and/or privileged information among the parties;
    Have agreed as follows:

Article 1

The Parties will:
    (i) protect and safeguard the information and material of the other Party;
    (ii) make every effort to ensure that, if it is classified, such information and material will maintain the security classifications established by any Party with respect to information and material of that Party’s origin and safeguard such information and material to agreed common standards;
    (iii) not use the exchanged information and material for purposes other than those laid down in the framework of the respective programmes and the decisions and resolutions pertaining to these programmes;
    (iv) not disclose such information and material to third parties without the consent of the originator.

Article 2

(i) The Government of Slovenia accepts the commitment to have all persons of its nationality who, in the conduct of their official duties, require or may have access to information or material exchanged under the NACC or PfP programmes appropriately cleared before they are granted access to such information and material.
    (ii) The security clearance procedures should be designed to determine whether an individual can, taking into account his loyalty and trustworthiness, have access to classified information without risk to its security.

Article 3

The NATO Office of Security (NOS), under the direction and on behalf of the Secretary General and the Chairman, NATO Military Committee, acting in the name of the North Atlantic Council and the NATO Military Committee and under their authority, is responsible for security arrangements for the protection of classified information exchanged within the NACC/PfP cooperation.

Article 4

The Government of Slovenia will inform the NOS of the security authority with the similar national responsibility. Separate Administrative Arrangements will be worked out between the Government of the Republic of Slovenia and NATO which will cover i.a. the standards of the reciprocal security protection for the information to be exchanged and the liaison between the security authority of the Republic of Slovenia and the NOS.

Article 5

Prior the exchange of any classified information between the Government of Slovenia and NATO, the responsible security authorities must reciprocally establish to their satisfaction that the recipient party is prepared to protect the information it receives, as required by the originator.
    In witness whereof the above-mentioned Representatives have signed the present Agreement.
    Done in duplicate at Brussels, this 13th day of July 1994, in the English and French languages, both texts being equally authoritative.

For the Government of Slovenia
Dr. Boris Cizelj, (s)
For the North Atlantic Treaty Organization for dr. Manfred Wörner
Sergio Balanzino, (s)