ETS 108 – Automatic Processing of Personal Data, 28.I.1981 __________________________________________________________________________________ Chapter IV – Mutual assistance Article 13 – Co-operation between Parties 1 The Parties agree to render each other mutual assistance in order to implement this Convention. 2 For that purpose: 3 a each Party shall designate one or more authorities, the name and address of each of which it shall communicate to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe; b each Party which has designated more than one authority shall specify in its communication referred to in the previous sub-paragraph the competence of each authority. An authority designated by a Party shall at the request of an authority designated by another Party: a furnish information on its law and administrative practice in the field of data protection; b take, in conformity with its domestic law and for the sole purpose of protection of privacy, all appropriate measures for furnishing factual information relating to specific automatic processing carried out in its territory, with the exception however of the personal data being processed. Article 14 – Assistance to data subjects resident abroad 1 Each Party shall assist any person resident abroad to exercise the rights conferred by its domestic law giving effect to the principles set out in Article 8 of this Convention. 2 When such a person resides in the territory of another Party he shall be given the option of submitting his request through the intermediary of the authority designated by that Party. 3 The request for assistance shall contain all the necessary particulars, relating inter alia to: a the name, address and any other relevant particulars identifying the person making the request; b the automated personal data file to which the request pertains, or its controller; c the purpose of the request. Article 15 – Safeguards concerning assistance rendered by designated authorities 1 An authority designated by a Party which has received information from an authority designated by another Party either accompanying a request for assistance or in reply to its own request for assistance shall not use that information for purposes other than those specified in the request for assistance. 2 Each Party shall see to it that the persons belonging to or acting on behalf of the designated authority shall be bound by appropriate obligations of secrecy or confidentiality with regard to that information. 5