of May 7, 1993 No. 848-XII
About protection of the state secrets
This Law determines the legal basis of protection of the state secrets in all types of activity of state governing bodies, companies, organizations, organizations and associations, irrespective of patterns of ownership, military forming and citizens of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the territory of the republic and beyond its limits.
The state secrets of the Republic of Uzbekistan are special importance, absolutely confidential and confidential military, the political, economic, scientific and technical and other data protected by the state and limited by special lists.
The state secrets are property of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
The legal basis of protection of the state secrets is constituted: The constitution of the Republic of Uzbekistan, this Law, others, the published according to it, legal acts of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
The state secrets of the Republic of Uzbekistan are subdivided into the state, military and official secret.
Data which disclosure, can make negative impact on high-quality condition of military-economic capacity of the republic are the state secret or entail other heavy consequences for defense capability, state security, economic and political interests of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
Data of military nature which disclosure can entail heavy consequences for defense capability, state security and Armed Forces of the Republic of Uzbekistan are military secret.
Data in the field of science, the equipment, production and management which disclosure can cause damage to interests of the Republic of Uzbekistan are official secret.
The list of especially regime, especially important and sensitive sites, and also procedure for reference to them are established by the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
The classification and declassification of information is made according to this Law, Regulations on procedure for determination and establishment of degree of privacy of data and the List of the data which are subject to classification in the Republic of Uzbekistan, approved by the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
The state bodies of ensuring protection of the state secrets determined by the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan having the right to code and declassify information which is property of legal entities and physical persons of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
The companies, organizations, the organizations, public associations, the certain citizens having the data containing the state secrets for the solution of question of need of their classification shall address to bodies of ensuring protection of the state secrets.
Information which classification creates threat of personal security of citizens cannot be carried to the state secrets.
Owners of information have the right to appeal in court wrongful acts on classification or declassification of information.
The system of protection of the state secrets including procedure for classification, the admission and the related restrictions and also procedure for the address with the state secrets is determined by the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
The termination or deprivation of the admission does not exempt the citizen of the Republic of Uzbekistan from obligations of nondisclosure of the state secrets known to it.
Justification of classification of information is reviewed each five years according to the procedure, established by the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
The citizen of the Republic of Uzbekistan working or working with the data which are the state or military secret, maybe, from its written consent, is limited in the rights before the privacy expiration, but no more than for 5 years.
Service of state security of the Republic of Uzbekistan within the competence:
will organize control of ensuring safety of the state secrets, safety of special types of communication and the cryptographic work, counteraction to technical means of foreign intelligence service;
performs check of the mode of privacy in state bodies, at the companies, in organizations, the organizations and associations. Introduces at the same time instructions, obligatory for execution, on taking measures, the state secrets directed to safety;
carries out with the consent of citizens their special inspection in case of execution of the admission to the data which are the state or military secret;
gives methodical and practical help to departments in questions of protection of the state secrets;
performs other measures, stipulated by the legislation the Republic of Uzbekistan on protection of the state secrets.
Protection of the state secrets - obligation of all state bodies having them, the companies, organizations, the organizations, associations, and also officials and citizens of the Republic of Uzbekistan. Carrying out any works with use of the state secrets is performed only after taking measures to their protection.
Responsibility for safety of the state secrets is conferred on heads of state bodies, companies, organizations, organizations and associations.
Guilty persons are made for disclosure of the state secrets, loss of the documents and products containing them or illegal classification of information responsible according to the legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
President of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Islam Karimov
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