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LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS

of January 5, 2013 No. 16-Z

About trade secret

(as amended on 26-07-2024)

Accepted by the House of Representatives on December 17, 2012

Approved by Council of the Republic on December 20, 2012

Chapter 1 General provisions

Article 1. The main terms used in this Law and their determinations

In this Law the following main terms and their determinations are used:

the owner of trade secret - legal entity or physical person, including the individual entrepreneur, and also state body, the foreign organization, not being the legal entity, legally having data concerning which such persons according to this Law set the mode of trade secret, except as specified, when these data are trade secret of other persons;

access to trade secret - access with the consent of the owner of trade secret or on other legal cause of certain group of people with the data which are trade secret;

trade secret - data of any nature (technical, production, organizational, commercial, financial and other), including know-how (know-how) conforming to requirements of this Law concerning which the mode of trade secret is set;

the partner - the party of the civil agreement (except for the faces consisting in employment relationships with the owner of trade secret) to which the owner of trade secret provides access to the data which are trade secret;

the carrier of trade secret - the document or other material object on which the data which are trade secret contain in any objective form, including in the form of symbols, images, signals allowing to distinguish and identify these data;

non-disclosure obligation of trade secret - the civil contract signed by the owner of trade secret or person who got access to it, with the face consisting in employment relationships with the owner of trade secret or person who got access to it, and determining the obligations of the parties connected with maintaining confidentiality of the data which are trade secret;

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