МЕЖДУ ПРАВИТЕЛЬСТВОМ РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ И ПРАВИТЕЛЬСТВОМ ЮЖНО-АФРИКАНСКОЙ РЕСПУБЛИКИ О СОТРУДНИЧЕСТВЕ В ОБЛАСТИ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ И ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЯ КОСМИЧЕСКОГО ПРОСТРАНСТВА В МИРНЫХ ЦЕЛЯХ. Соглашение. Правительство РФ. 05.09.06

Article 8
                       Exchange of information

     1.  For  the  purposes  of  this Agreement the term "information"
shall mean any information, including data on persons, objects, facts,
events,   phenomena   and  processes,  irrespective  of  the  form  of
presentation,  related to the joint activities under this Agreement or
separate  agreements, as well as information about the progress of its
implementation or results obtained.
     2.  Information  obtained  in  the course of conducting the joint
activities   shall   be   accessible  to  both  Parties  and/or  their
cooperating   organizations  and  shall  be  transmitted  as  soon  as
practicable  in  accordance  with the provisions on confidentiality of
information  provided  for  in the Annex to this Agreement, where such
provisions  are  applicable, and the provisions of paragraph 3 of this
Article.
     3.   The   Parties   shall   provide  appropriate  protection  of
information,  transmitted  or  generated  in  the  course of the joint
activities  under  this  Agreement, the access to and dissemination of
which  is restricted according to the laws and other statutory Acts of
the  States  of the Parties (hereinafter referred to as Restricted use
information).  Restricted  use  information  shall  not fall under the
category of information classified as state secret.
     The  treatment of the restricted use information shall be carried
out  in accordance with the laws and other statutory Acts of the State
of  the  Party  which receives the information. Such information shall
not  be  disclosed or transmitted to any third party/third person with
respect  to  this Agreement without the consent in written form of the
Party  and  participants  in  the  joint  activities which provide the
information.
     Restricted  use  information  shall  be duly marked as such. This
information  media  shall  be  provided  with  a  mark: in the Russian
Federation  - Для служебного пользования (for official use) and in the
Republic  of  South  Africa  -  FOR  OFFICIAL  USE  ONLY  (только  для
служебного  пользования).  Responsibility  for such marking shall rest
with   the  Party  and  participants  in  the  joint  activities,  the
information  of  which  requires such marking. The participants in the
joint  activities  shall  determine the procedure for the transmission
and treatment of such information on the basis and under the terms and
conditions of a separate agreement in written form.
     4.  Separate  agreements indicated in paragraph 1 of Article 5 of
this  Agreement  shall  envisage  protection  of  the  restricted  use
information,   modalities  and  conditions  for  the  transmission  of
restricted  use  information  to  the  personnel  of  the  Parties  or
cooperating  organizations,  or to a third party with respect to these
agreements including its contractors and subcontractors.
     5.   The   Parties  shall,  through  the  competent  authorities,
facilitate  the  mutual  exchange of information relating to the joint
activities  under  this  Agreement  and  the  basic  directions of the
national  space  programmes  of  their States, and shall encourage the
exchange  of  information  in relation to the joint activities carried
out  within separate agreements, in accordance with the laws and other
statutory Acts of the States of the Parties.
     6.  Each  Party  and  its  cooperating  organizations  shall  not
disclose or retransmit any information referred to in paragraphs 1 - 3
of  this Article, received from the other Party and/or the cooperating
organizations  of  the  other  Party, except for cases when there is a
prior  consent  in  written  form of the transmitting Party and/or the
transmitting cooperating organizations.
     7.  No information requiring protection in the security interests
of  the  States  of  the  Parties  and  classified  as state secret in
accordance with the laws and other statutory Acts of the States of the
Parties shall be transmitted under this Agreement. If the provision of
specific  information classified in the State of either Party as state
secret  is  accepted  by this Party as necessary in specific cases for
the  purposes  of  implementing  this Agreement, the procedure for the
transmission  and  treatment of such information shall be regulated by
the  laws and other statutory Acts of the States of the Parties on the
basis  and  under  the  terms  and  conditions of a separate agreement
between the Parties in written form.