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c- the information technology information to be safeguarded
and its relation to the crime.
d- any available information that determines the person
responsible for the stored information or the location of the
information technology.
e- the reasons for the safeguarding request.
f- the desire of the State Party submitting the request for
bilateral assistance to investigate, access, seize, secure or
disclose the stored information technology information.
When a State Party receives a request from another State
Party, it shall take all appropriate actions to safeguard the
specified information in an expeditious manner according to
its domestic law. For the purpose of responding to the request,
safeguarding shall not be conditional on the existence of dual
criminality.
A State Party that stipulates the existence of dual criminality
to respond to the assistance request may, except in cases of
crimes set forth in Chapter II of this Convention, reserve its
right to refuse the safeguarding request according to this
Article if there is reason to believe that the dual criminality
requirement shall not be fulfilled at the time of disclosure.
Additionally, a safeguarding request may be refused if:
a- the request relates to an offence that the State Party from
which assistance is requested considers as a political
offence.
b- the State Party from which assistance is requested considers
that implementing the request could threaten its
sovereignty, security, order or interests.
Whenever the State Party from which assistance is requested
believes that safeguarding will not guarantee the future
availability of information or will jeopardize the
confidentiality of the investigations of the requesting State
Party or their integrity, it shall inform the requesting State
Party accordingly so that it may subsequently determine the
possibility of implementing the request.
A safeguarding that results from a response to the request
mentioned in paragraph 1 shall be for a period of no less than
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