(a) release shall mean the transfer, communication, provision and delivery of information constituting secret by this Law, as well as making, by any means, the information accessible to persons with no permits to deal with such information Dissemination of information constituting state or official secret, release or leakage of such information shall mean: The bearers of information constituting state or official secret (hereinafter referred to as "the bearers of information") shall mean the material objects, including the physical fields in which the information constituting state or official secret shall be expressed in the form of images, conventional signs, signals, technical solutions and process.Ģ. The following concepts shall be used in this Law:ġ. (Article 2 amended by HO-318 of 20 March 2002)
Information constituting state and official secrets is considered as the property of the Republic of Armenia and is kept and protected by the State.
As a rule, such information contains data constituting a part of a state secret, which, however, do not per se reveal the state secret. Official secret is the information on the fields provided for by part 1 of this Article that is protected by the State and the dissemination whereof may cause harm to the security of the Republic of Armenia. State secret is the information on the fields of military, foreign relations, economic, scientific-technical, intelligence, anti-intelligence and operational intelligence activities in the Republic of Armenia that are protected by the State and the dissemination whereof may cause grave consequences for the security of the Republic of Armenia. (Article 1 supplemented, amended by HO-318 of 20 March 2002)Ĭoncept of state secret and official secret The provisions of this Law shall be subject to compulsory enforcement in the territory of the Republic of Armenia and outside the territory thereof by state and local self-government bodies of the Republic of Armenia, as well as by enterprises, institutions and organisations (irrespective of organisational-legal form), officials and citizens who, by virtue of their status, are obliged or have assumed the obligation to fulfil the requirements of the legislation of the Republic of Armenia on state and official secrets.
This Law shall regulate the relations arising in connection with classification of information of a certain field as state or official secret, decryption and protection of that information with the view to ensuring the security of the Republic of Armenia (vital interests of citizens, the public and the State) shall define the concept of state and official secrets, the levels of confidentiality, the legal grounds for classifying information constituting secret as state or official secret, for keeping, decrypting and using that information and the powers of state bodies in the relations in regard to the secret.
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