for provision of services shall be laid on a proprietor or owner of these systems and
means; the responsibility for the use of information received from such systems shall
be laid on the user.
Article 20. Protection of Subjects' Rights in the Sphere of Informatisation
Information user shall bear the liability for observance of rights of information
proprietor or owner.
Relations between owners and users of information products and services shall be
formalized on the basis of agreements in accordance with procedure provided for by
legislation of Azerbaijan Republic. Conflicts arising between them shall be settled at
the court in accordance with procedure established by legislation of Azerbaijan
Republic. Natural persons and legal entities who cause damage to an information
owner through corruption or change of the information, shall bear the liability
pursuant to legislation of Azerbaijan Republic.
Protection of subjects" rights in the sphere of formation of information resources, use
of information resources, elaboration, production and application of information
systems, technology and means for their support shall be carried out in order to
prevent delicts, restore infringed rights, compensate damage caused. Protection of
rights shall be carried by relevant bodies of the executive power in accordance with
procedure established by legislation of Azerbaijan Republic.
Restriction or refusal to provide access to open information, provision of deliberately
unauthentic information to a user and non-fulfillment of the provisions of Azerbaijan
Republic legislation or of concluded agreements may be appealed against in legal
form, and compensation of damage resulted from such actions may be claimed.
Officials being guilty in groundless restrictions in citizens' rights to work with
information shall bear the liability in accordance with procedure established by
legislation of Azerbaijan Republic.
Chapter VI. International relations in the field of information
Article 21. Innernational Cooperation in the Sphere of Information
Inter-governmental cooperation in the field of information shall be carried out
pursuant to agreements concluded by Azerbaijan Republic.
In case if international agreements of Azerbaijan Republic provide for rules other than
those in the present Law, the provisions of the international agreements shall be
applied.
President of Azerbaijan Republic
Heydar ALIEV
Baku, April 3, 1998