Pursuant to Section 2.4.3 in the Amendment 10 of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Annex 17, this is a Transport Security Regulation for the protection of œshared information  sourced via the herein modes of sharing information. This Regulation is in strict compliance of the mandatory requirements stated in Section 2.4.3 of Annex 17 of ICAO;

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Section 1. Basis- The threat to civil aviation terrorism has reached global proportion. Its evolving dimension calls for an urgent international cooperation in intelligence gathering and sharing to address the fast growing menace.

Section 2. Modes of Acquiring Shared Information- The different modes of acquiring shared information are the following;

2.1	By joining regional and international cooperation aimed in countering Civil Aviation Terrorism, such as the APEC-Transportation Security Experts Group; the ASEAN-Japan Aviation Security Group; the IATA Aviation Security Committee; the European Commission Aviation Security Experts Group and the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, and others as maybe appropriate;
2.2	Representatives from the Office for Transportation Security (OTS) with appropriate training, experience and education in aviation security as determined by the OTS Administrator shall be sent to these meetings and conferences. Provided, that all security sensitive or classified information for discussion in the meeting shall be first be cleared with the OTS Administrator;
2.3	The OTS representative shall submit in detail, an After Conference Report attaching thereto all materials, paraphernalia, information, data, any/or all materials from the said conference;
2.4	Information officially shared by another contracting state with OTS shall be accorded the highest form of protection after OTS shall have classified the same.

Section 3. Classification of Documents-

3.1	This office reserves the right to duly classify documents and or information shared by other states.
3.2	Classified documents shall be shared with anyone with security clearance on need- to-know basis only as determined by the Administrator.
3.3	Adequate protection shall be accorded to all classified documents by observing the requirements of OTS Manual for œDocument Security  especially on filing, retrieval, sharing and transmittal.

Section 4. Accounting of Documents

4.1	Each classified document shall be re-classified by OTS every three years.
4.2	After re-classification, OTS may order the destruction of expired documents in accordance with the standard security procedure as enunciated in the manual.

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Section 5. Construction - These rules shall be liberally construed in order to promote its security objectives.

Section 6. Reservation - Nothing herein shall be construed as precluding OTS through the Administrator from enforcing these rules in conducting inspection, investigation, evaluation, assessment and audit of the activities enunciated herein, and in prescribing other requirements to meet the constantly evolving challenges in transport security administration.

Section 7. Separability - If any provision or section of these rules is declared null and void by competent authority, the other stays and are not affected and shall remain in full force and effect.

Section 8. Effectivity - This Transport Security Regulation shall take effect immediately after publication in a newspaper of general circulation.

Adopted: 23 Oct. 2006