ARMENIA LAW AND PRACTICE Contributed by: Aram Orbelyan, Narine Beglaryan, Artur Hovhannisyan, Lilit Karapetyan, Sarkis Knyazyan and Shushanik Stepanyan, Concern Dialog
Persons having illegally obtained information that constitutes a trade secret shall be obliged to compensate the damages caused. This obliga - tion shall also be imposed on parties to a contract that have disclosed and/or used a trade secret in violation of a civil law or employment contract.
• notarial secrecy regulated by the Law on the Notarial System; • insurance secrecy regulated by the Law on Insurance and Insurance Activities; • legal professional privilege regulated by the Law on the Profession of Advocate; • personal data use during operations concern - ing national security and defence regulated by a number of legal acts relating to the national security service and military forces; • personal data use in preventing and detect - ing money laundering and terrorism financing regulated by the Law on Combating Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing; • operational intelligence activities regulated by the Law on Operational Intelligence; and • proceedings regulated by the Criminal Procedural Code of Armenia, the Civil Pro - cedural Code of Armenia, the Administrative Procedural Code of Armenia, and the Law on Compulsory Enforcement. There are some other laws that regulate personal data protection in specific areas, such as the Labour Code. Principles of Data Protection The Data Protection Law specifies the principles of personal data protection, which are as fol - lows: • principle of lawfulness; • principle of proportionality; • principle of reliability; and • principle of minimum engagement of data subjects. The principle of lawfulness requires the process - ing of personal data to be in compliance with the law as well as with the data subject’s consent. Under the principle of proportionality, the law mandates that:
8. Data Protection 8.1 Applicable Regulations The Regulation of Data Protection
Under the Armenian Constitution, the right to the inviolability of private and family life and the right to protection of personal data are declared as basic human rights, which may only be legally suspended or restricted during a state of emer - gency or under martial law. Armenia has ratified the Convention for the Pro - tection of Human Rights and Fundamental Free - doms 1950. This means that Armenia applies personal data protection in its jurisdiction as it is stipulated under Article 8 of this Convention. Armenia has also ratified the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automat - ic Processing of Personal Data (Strasbourg, 28 January 1981), including the Protocol amending the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data (Strasbourg, 10 October 2018). The main internal legal act related to data pro - tection in Armenia is the Law on Protection of Personal Data, which was adopted in 2015 (Data Protection Law). The Data Protection Law stipu - lates that the following separate laws indicate specific rules for processing the defined particu - lar personal data: • bank secrecy regulated by the Law on Bank - ing Secrecy;
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