3- 4- 5- 6- 7- 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 22

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