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10 Obligations of SAR services
10.1 Regulation V/19-1.10 specifies that Contracting Governments shall, at all times:
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.1 recognize the importance of long-range identification and tracking information;
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.2 recognize and respect the commercial confidentiality and sensitivity of any long-range identification and tracking information they may receive;
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.3 protect the information they may receive from unauthorized access or disclosure; and
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.4 use the information they may receive in a manner consistent with international law.
10.2 SAR services shall consider themselves obliged to adhere, mutatis mutandis, to provisions of regulation V/19-1.10.
10.3 The attention of SAR services is drawn to regulation V/19-1.13 which states that Contracting Governments may report to the Organization any case where they consider that provisions of the regulation or of any other related requirements established by the Organization have not been or are not being observed or adhered to.
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