The following rules of protection will be established unless the Council, having obtained the Council Security Committee's technical opinion, decides on a particular procedure for the handling of EU classified documents (deleting mention of the EU classification, specific marking, etc.).
Če Svet po pridobitvi tehničnega mnenja Varnostnega odbora Sveta ne določi posebnega postopka za delo s tajnimi dokumenti EU (izbris navedbe razvrstitve EU, posebne oznake itd.), se vzpostavijo varovalna pravila, navedena v nadaljevanju: