The Security Screening Act (Wet veiligheidsonderzoeken, Wvo) offers the possibility to designate positions in which the official could harm the national security as positions involving confidentiality. Furthermore, the Wvo offers the possibility to designate a location for which access to the location could damage the national security.
The 'Guidelines designation positions involving confidentiality and locations' sets the policy framework to determine for which positions and locations a security screening is required and which level this security screening should have. These guidelines offer a clear framework for the designation of positions and locations involving confidentiality. It provides the expert minister with instruments to uniformly distinguish positions and locations from which the national security could be compromised.
These guidelines relate to the designation of positions involving confidentiality and locations in the civil domain. Positions and locations involving confidentiality in the military domain fall under the responsibility of the Minister of Defence, which uses their own designation policy for this.