General report

Shows the access and declassification rules associated with an entity.

Council of Europe administrative entity, organ, committee or independent body.

Indicate whether the rule or text applies to official documents or internal documents.

Under the terms of Resolution Res(2001)6:
- official documents are the documents of the various Council of Europe organs, bodies and committees;
- internal documents are documents which are not official. They include correspondence sent to or received from the outside.

The access classification level determines the access rights assigned to a group of people for a given document series.
There are 5 levels:
- public: applies to unclassified documents, for public dissemination
- restricted: applies to documents made available to member governments and the Secretariat of the Council of Europe
- internal: applies to documents that are accessible to all internal users, i.e. staff of the Council of Europe
- confidential: applies to documents sent to member governments and the service or committee responsible for the document
- secret: applies to documents individually numbered and forwarded to recipients authorised by Private Office.

These levels were defined by Committee of Ministers decision CM/Del/Dec(98)641 with the exception of “internal”, introduced in the 2009 Archival Policy.