Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2019C00013:schedule:1:p36
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2019C00013
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 1 (pt 36/57)
Character Range: 158945–161866

System facilities.  The methods for supporting data access and the provision of data shall include the following services:
(a) Automatic and regular forwarding to a State Party of the products of the International Data Centre or the selection by the State Party thereof, and, as requested, the selection by the State Party of International Monitoring System data;
(b) The provision of the data or products generated in response to ad hoc requests by States Parties for the retrieval from the International Data Centre and International Monitoring System facility archives of data and products, including interactive electronic access to the International Data Centre data base; and
(c) Assisting individual States Parties, at their request and at no cost for reasonable efforts, with expert technical analysis of International Monitoring System data and other relevant data provided by the requesting State Party, in order to help the State Party concerned to identify the source of specific events.  The output of any such technical analysis shall be considered a product of the requesting State Party, but shall be available to all States Parties.
The International Data Centre services specified in sub‑paragraphs (a) and (b) shall be made available at no cost to each State Party.  The volumes and formats of data shall be set out in the Operational Manual for the International Data Centre.
National Event Screening
21. The International Data Centre shall, if requested by a State Party, apply to any of its standard products, on a regular and automatic basis, national event screening criteria established by that State Party, and provide the results of such analysis to that State Party.  This service shall be undertaken at no cost to the requesting State Party.  The output of such national event screening processes shall be considered a product of the requesting State Party.
Technical Assistance
22. The International Data Centre shall, where required, provide technical assistance to individual States Parties:
(a) In formulating their requirements for selection and screening of data and products;
(b) By installing at the International Data Centre, at no cost to a requesting State Party for reasonable efforts, computer algorithms or software provided by that State Party to compute new signal and event parameters that are not included in the Operational Manual for the International Data Centre, the output being considered products of the requesting State Party; and
(c) By assisting States Parties to develop the capability to receive, process and analyse International Monitoring System data at a national data centre.
23. The International Data Centre shall continuously monitor and report on the operational status of the International Monitoring System facilities, of communications links, and of its own processing systems.  It shall provide immediate notification to those responsible should the