DATA PROTECTION LAW - GRATA InternationalDATA PROTECTION LAW: UZBEKISTAN CONTENTS • General Overview • Data Protection Under the Civil Code • Data Protection in the Banking Sector

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DATA PROTECTION LAW: UZBEKISTAN

CONTENTS

• General Overview

• Data Protection Under the Civil Code

• Data Protection in the Banking Sector

• Grounds of Refusal of Access to Data

• Individual Privacy Protection

• Liability


GENERAL OVERVIEW

Legislation regulating data protection in Uzbekistan:

• The Civil Code;

• The Business Law (The Law on guarantees of freedom of

entrepreneurial activities);

• The Law “On Bank Secrecy”;

• The Law “On Mass Media”;

• The Law “On Telecommunications”;

• The Law “On Access to Information”;

• The Law “On Freedom of Information”.


DATA PROTECTION UNDER THE CIVIL CODE

• Non-disclosure of information

Conditions for Commercial secrecy:

this information does contain actual or potential commercial valuedue to the fact of its not being known to the third parties;

there is no free lawful access to this type of information;

the owner of this information takes security measures to maintain itsconfidentiality.

• Exclusion clauses

• Data protection in service agreements;

• Data protection in insurance agreements;

• Transfer of Title to the Protected Data


DATA PROTECTION IN THE BANKING SECTOR

Information protected by law:

• information on any transactions involving the customer’s bankaccounts;

• information on customers which is received by a bank in course ofrendering banking services;

• information on inter-bank transactions and contracts made at thecustomer’s request or in his/her favor;

• information on a customer of another bank which became known asa result of the banks circulating supposedly privileged information;

• information on the customers of the accumulative pension system,amounts and movement of pension deposits, and pension savingsin citizen’s individual accounts.


DATA PROTECTION IN THE BANKING SECTOR

The following Public Authorities and their divisions have restricted access to protected data:

• the Public Prosecutor’s Office;

• the Supreme Court;

• legal successors;

• the State Tax Committee;

• other law enforcement agencies.


GROUNDS OF REFUSAL OF ACCESS TO DATA

• grounds of refusal of access to data;

• the form of refusal;

• liability for illegal refusal;

• purposes of protection.


INDIVIDUAL PRIVACY PROTECTION

• The Constitution

• The Freedom of Information Law;

• The Telecommunications Law;


LIABILITY

• Liability Under the Civil Code;

• Liability Under the Business law;

• Administrative Liability;

• Criminal Liability.


CONTACTS

Zafar MalikovManaging [email protected]

Nodir YuldashevSenior [email protected]

GRATA Law Firm4 B Glinka Street, Tashkent, 100070, Republic of UzbekistanTel.: + 998 71 120-4778Fax: + 998 71 120-4779URL: www.gratanet.com

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DATA PROTECTION LAW - GRATA InternationalDATA PROTECTION LAW: UZBEKISTAN CONTENTS • General Overview • Data Protection Under the Civil Code • Data Protection in the Banking Sector