8. Article

With reference to Article 26 If in accordance with domestic law personal data is exchanged under this Agreement, the following additional provisions shall apply: a) The data receiving Contracting State may use such data only for the stated purpose and shall be subject to the conditions prescribed by the data supplying Contracting State. b) The data receiving Contracting State shall on request inform the data supplying Contracting State about the use of the supplied data and the results achieved. c) Personal data may be supplied only to the responsible agencies. Any subsequent supply to other agencies may be effected only with the prior approval of the data supplying Contracting State. d) The data supplying Contracting State shall be obliged to ensure that the data to be supplied are accurate and that they are necessary for and commensurate with the purpose for which they are supplied. Any bans on data supply prescribed under the applicable domestic law shall be observed. If it emerges that inaccurate data or data which should not have been supplied have been supplied, the data receiving Contracting State shall be informed of this without delay. That State shall be obliged to correct or delete such data. e) Upon application the person concerned shall be informed of the supplied data relating to him and of the use to which such data are to be put. There shall be no obligation to furnish this information if on balance it appears that the public interest in withholding it outweighs the interest of the person concerned in receiving it. In all other respects, the right of the person concerned to be informed of the supplied data relating to him shall be governed by the domestic law of the Contracting State in whose sovereign territory the application for information is made. f) The data receiving Contracting State shall bear liability in accordance with its domestic laws in relation to any person suffering unlawful damage as a result of supply under the exchange of data pursuant to this Agreement. In relation to the damaged person, the data receiving Contracting State may not plead to its discharge that the damage had been caused by the data supplying Contracting State. g) If deadlines for the deletion of data are prescribed by the domestic law of the data supplying Contracting State, that State shall indicate such deadlines on supplying the data. Irrespective of such deadlines, supplied personal data shall be deleted as soon as they are no longer required for the purpose for which they were supplied. h) The data supplying and receiving Contracting States shall be obliged to keep official records of the supply and receipt of personal data. i) The data supplying and receiving Contracting States shall be obliged to take effective measures to protect the personal data supplied against unauthorised access, unauthorised alteration and unauthorised disclosure. DONE at Riga this 21st day of February 1997 in two originals, each in the Latvian, German and English languages, all three texts being authentic. In the case of divergent interpretation of the Latvian and the German texts the English text shall prevail. For the Republic For the Federal Republic of Latvia of Germany Andris Ðíçle Horst Weisel