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Correction, deletion and blocking of data
(1) Incorrect data shall be corrected.
(2) Personal data shall be deleted if their storage is not permissible or if they are not
necessary to investigate or combat international terrorism. They shall be deleted no
later than such time as the relevant intelligence has to be deleted pursuant to the legal provisions applying to the authorities involved.
(3) Data shall be blocked and not deleted if deletion is likely to harm the interests of
the person concerned which are worthy of protection. Blocked data may be requested
and used solely for the purpose which justified saving them from deletion. They may
also be requested and used if this is necessary to protect significant legal interests, if
it would otherwise be impossible or very difficult to clarify the facts of the case, or if
the person concerned agrees.
(4) In line with the time limits applying to intelligence data and when processing individual cases, the authorities which enter the data shall examine whether personal data need to be corrected or deleted.
Section 12
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Order opening a data file
For the joint database, Federal Criminal Police Office in consultation with the participating authorities shall adopt an order opening a data file specifying the following details:
1. areas of international terrorism affecting the Federal Republic of Germany,
2. other police authorities participating pursuant to Section 1(2),
3. type of data subject to storage pursuant to Section 3(1),
4. entry of data to be stored,
5. organizational units of the participating authorities with access rights,
6. categorization of purposes and the urgency of a request,
7. log data.
The order opening a data file shall be approved by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the Federal Chancellery, the Federal Ministry of Defence, the Federal Ministry of
Finance and the supreme Land authorities responsible for the participating Land authorities. The Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information
shall be consulted before the order opening a data file is adopted.
Section 13
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Restriction of fundamental rights
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