1. The Agency shall issue a document in Albanian and in English to each team member for the purposes of identification vis-à-vis the national authorities of the Republic of Albania and as proof of the holder's rights to perform the tasks and exercise the powers referred to in Article 10 of this Agreement and in the operational plan (the "accreditation document").

2. The accreditation document shall include the following information on the staff member: name and nationality, rank or job title, a recent digitised photograph and tasks authorised to be performed during the deployment.

3. For the purposes of identification vis-à-vis the national authorities of the Republic of Albania, team members shall be obliged to carry the accreditation document on their person at all times.

4. The Republic of Albania shall recognise the accreditation document, in combination with a valid travel document, as granting the relevant team member, staff deployed to the Republic of Albania under this Agreement or an operational plan thereunder, entry and stay in the Republic of Albania without the need for a visa, prior authorisation or any other document up to the day of its expiration.

5. The accreditation document shall be returned to the Agency at the end of the deployment. The competent authorities of the Republic of Albania shall be informed thereof.

Article 15

Application to Agency staff not deployed as team members

Articles 12, 13 and 14 shall apply

mutatis mutandis

to all Agency staff deployed to the Republic of Albania under this Agreement or an operational plan thereunder who are not team members, including fundamental rights monitors and the statutory staff deployed to antenna offices.

Article 16

Protection of personal data

1. The communication of personal data shall take place only if such communication is necessary for the implementation of this Agreement by the competent authorities of the Republic of Albania or the Agency. The processing of personal data by an authority in a particular case, including the transfer of such personal data to the other Party, shall be subject to the data protection rules applicable to that authority. The Parties shall ensure the following minimum safeguards as a precondition for any data transfer:

(a) personal data must be processed lawfully, fairly, and in a transparent manner in relation to the data subject;

(b) personal data must be collected for the specified, explicit and legitimate purpose of implementing this Agreement and not further processed by the communicating authority nor receiving authority in a way incompatible with that purpose;

(c) personal data must be adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purpose for which they are collected or further processed; in particular, personal data communicated in accordance with the law applicable to the communicating authority may concern only one or more of the following:

— first name,

— last name,

— date of birth,

— nationality,

— rank,

— travel document bio page,

— accreditation document,

— ID/passport/accreditation document picture,

— e-mail address,

— mobile phone number,

— weapon details,

— duration of the deployment,

— location of the deployment,

— aircraft or vessel identification numbers,

— arrival date,

— arrival airport/border crossing point,

— arrival flight number,

— departure date,

— departure airport/border crossing point,

— departure flight number,

— home Member State/third country,

— deploying authority,

— tasks/operational profile,

— means of transportation,

— route