Establishment of the Sites

By this directive the O5 Council establishes the Foundation's nine sites, gives each its authority, and keeps the powers that belong to the whole Foundation. It is issued under Articles III, IV and VI of the Foundation Charter.

1. Declaration

The O5 Council declares the following sites of the SCP Foundation. Each is governed by its charter, issued with this directive as its annex.

Code-names, designations and security tiers are set out in each site's charter, which is restricted.

2. Authority granted to a site

1. Sites 02 to 09 each govern themselves under their charter, as states under a federal government.
2. Each is commanded by a Site Director appointed by the O5 Council. Within their site, the Site Director commands containment, staffing, security and its Site Clearance, and issues Site Orders.
3. A Site Director may create state departments for their site, appoint their heads and assign their staff.
4. Each site keeps its own Site Clearance, granted by its Site Director up to their own level. Site Clearance counts at that site only.
5. A site may set standing directives and special rules in its charter, and add to them by Site Order.

3. Powers kept by the federal command

1. The O5 Council appoints and removes Site Directors, and issues and amends site charters.

2. The O5 Council and The Administrator may act at any site, grant or revoke any Site Clearance, and overrule any Site Order.

3. Site-01 clearance is granted only by the O5 Council and The Administrator, and gives no clearance at any other site.

4. Every Site Director must be a member of Site-01 personnel. Directing a site gives no authority at any other site, and a Site Director may not enter another site without its Site Clearance.

5. A Site-01 officer who directs no site, and whose Site-01 clearance is at least a site's director level, has the same authority at that site as its Director.

6. Federal departments serve every site; state departments exist only at their own site. Each federal department has a federal head, appointed by the O5 Council, and a site lead at each site where it works, who answers to that site's Director:

   Department	Federal head	Site lead
   Scientific Department	Head of Research	Director of Research
   Security Department	Head of Security	Security Chief
   Medical Department	Head of Medicine	Chief Medical Officer
   Mobile Task Forces	MTF Command	Garrison Commander, or Commander, Site-04
   Engineering and Technical Service	Head of Engineering	Chief Engineer
   Administrative Department	Director of Administration	Senior Administrative Officer at the site's Registry Office
   Intelligence Agency	Director of Intelligence	Station Chief
   Manufacturing Department	Director of Manufacturing	Works Manager
   Internal Security Department	Director of Internal Security	Internal Security Chief
   Department of External Affairs	Director of External Affairs	Envoy
   Internal Tribunal	Chief Justice, sitting at Site-09	Judge
   Logistics Department	Director of Logistics	Logistics Chief
   Class-D Programme	Head of Security	Security Chief; at Site-09 the Class-D Programme Director

   Federal heads hold Site-01 clearance and may grant it to their own staff up to Level 3.

7. The Ethics Committee, the Foundation's second council, may veto any Site Order, test or capture at any site (Charter, Article III). Its Site Observers, Foundation Observers and Auditors answer to it, not to a Site Director, and enter any site on mission with the clearance the Chair grants, escorted by the site's Security except where an escort would defeat the observation (Charter, Article VI).

4. Order of authority

The Foundation Charter, then O5 Directives (this one included), then each site's charter, then its Site Orders. A lower instrument gives way to a higher one.

5. Seals, insignia and notices

1. Each site bears a public seal and a restricted insignia, as its charter records. The insignia is shown only to personnel holding that site's clearance.
2. Federal notices are posted in #announcements and copied to every site feed. Each site's own notices are posted in its feed, #site-01 to #site-09.

Revisions