Article 17. Objectives of Protection in the Field of Information Resources and
Processes
The objectives of information protection are as follows:
• to prevent destruction, loss, forgery of information;
• to ensure security of the state, society and citizens;
• to prevent unauthorized actions on information destruction, modification, copying
and blockade;
• to keep information being state secret, and to keep secrecy of confidential
information;
• to ensure rights of natural persons and legal entities in information processes and at
elaboration, production and use of information systems, technology and means for
their support.
Article 18. Organization of Information Protection
Any documented information should be protected whose improper use may cause
damage to its proprietor, owner, user or other person.
Conditions for information protection, depending on its secrecy category and type of
its access, shall be established by the Law of Azerbaijan Republic "On the State
Secret", the present Law, other regulatory-legal acts and by the information
proprietor.
A proprietor of information resources or, pursuant to legislation of Azerbaijan
Republic, structural units responsible for information protection shall be entitled to
exercise control over execution of requirements on information protection and to
prohibit or suspend information processing in case of non- fulfillment of these
requirements.
A proprietor or owner of documented information shall be entitled to apply to bodies
of the State power for evaluation of correctness of fulfillment of norms and
requirements on protection of its information in information systems. These bodies
shall observe requirements of confidentiality of the information itself and of the
check-up results.
Article 19. Rights and Duties of Subjects in the Field of Information Protection
A proprietor of documents, file of documents, information systems or relevant bodies
of the executive power, shall establish, pursuant to the present Law, procedure for
provision of information to a user and shall ensure access to information for users.
The responsibility for the use of non-certificated information systems and means, and