## IV.2.2. Security 

IV.2.2.1. Contractors working in t h e c o n t r a c t i n g a u t h o r i t y ’ s premises must conform to any internal security rules of the contracting authority. If the contractor's staff is working in the contracting authority buildings, the contractor is required, at the contracting authority's request, to replace immediately and without compensation any person considered undesirable by the contracting authority. 

IV.2.2.2. The security requirements for each individual project may be described in the specific contracts. 

IV.2.2.3. The contractor agrees to impose the security obligations of this Article upon any of its subcontractors and their staff who perform tasks for the contracting authority in execution of this framework contract. 

IV.2.2.4. The contractor recognises that no Products , equipment or material whatsoever owned by the contracting authority or present at the contracting authority’s premises, may be moved or removed without the contracting authority’s express written approval and the signature of a specific contract relating thereto. Each move or removal of a Product , equipment or material whatsoever, shall be recorded in a note, as specified in the specific contract in execution of which these Products , equipment’s or materials are moved or removed. 

IV.2.2.5. The contractor shall take all appropriate steps for each Product to ensure that the data and the magnetic media upon which they are stored are safely preserved. The Products supplied shall not contain any mechanism (e.g. viruses) which could compromise their proper operation or that of other Products . The cost of repairing the damage caused by such a mechanism shall be borne by the contractor. 

IV.2.2.6. The contractor undertakes to inform the contracting authority by a Means of registered communication as soon as it has any knowledge of defaults in its Products that endanger the security of the configurations of which they form a part. It shall immediately take any measures necessary to restore the security of the configurations and correct the defaults. 

IV.2.2.7. The contractor shall ensure that all security precautions for each Product are clearly spelled out in the relevant Documentation supplied to the contracting authority. 

IV.2.2.8. Should the contractor, during the performance of the tasks which are the subject of the framework contract, need remote access to internal informatics resources from the external domain, he shall be requested to comply with the contracting authority’s internal rules on practical and technical security for remote intervention. This must be achieved by way of accepting in writing the conditions of use for remote intervention provided by the contracting authority. 

## IV.2.3. Specific Intellectual property rights 

IV.2.3.1. As regards all Software or other protected material for which the Intellectual property rights are the property of the contracting authority or which have been licensed to the contracting authority by third Parties, and which the contractor is likely to use in the execution of its obligations under this framework contract, the contracting authority expressly authorises the contractor to use such Software or other protected material, within the limits strictly necessary for the execution of this framework contract. 

