a) § 1 ATDG determines that the counter-terrorism database is to be maintained as
a joint, standardised, central database by the Federal Criminal Police Office (Bundeskriminalamt) and defines the agencies that may participate in it. […]
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b) § 2 ATDG determines that, and with regard to which persons or objects, agencies
are obliged to store previously collected data in the counter-terrorism database. […]
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c) Which data are to be stored on the persons and objects mentioned in § 2 sentence 1 nos. 1 to 4 ATDG follows from § 3 sec. 1 ATDG. This provision distinguishes
between the basic data listed in § 3 sec. 1 no. 1a ATDG (hereafter, for clarity’s sake,
also called “simple basic data”) and the extended basic data listed in § 3 sec. 1 no. 1b
ATDG.
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§ 4 ATDG permits limited or covert storage of data where required by a particular interest in confidentiality or the legitimate interests of the person concerned. […]
d) § 5 sec. 1 ATDG governs access to the stored data in standard cases. […]
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Under § 6 sec. 1 sentence 1 ATDG, the requesting authority may use the data to
which it received access under § 5 sec. 1 ATDG only to examine whether the match
is associated with the person being sought, and to prepare and substantiate a request for an individual data transfer.
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e) For emergencies, § 5 sec. 2 sentence 1 ATDG authorises the requesting authority to access the extended basic data directly from a match. […]
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If the requesting authority has obtained access to data in an emergency, § 6 sec. 2
ATDG permits their use only where this is indispensable in order to avert a current
threat in connection with the fight against international terrorism. […]
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§ 7 ATDG provides that the transfer of findings following a request according to § 6
sec. 1 sentence 1 ATDG is governed by the respective current rules on data transfer.
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f) § 8 ATDG divides the responsibility for data protection between the authority that
entered the data and the requesting authority. […]
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§ 10 sec. 2 ATDG governs the release of information to the persons concerned.
This provision distinguishes between data stored openly and data stored covertly,
[translator’s note: i.e. such that are directly accessible and such that will only be disclosed subject to a certain procedure]. […]
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Finally, § 11 ATDG contains requirements for the correction, deletion and blocking
of access to data, while § 12 ATDG governs what details are to be specified by the
Federal Criminal Police Office in an order to open a data file. […]
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2. The provisions of the Counter-Terrorism Database Act of 22 December 2006
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