Article 3: Basic concepts

The following basic concepts shall be applied in this Law:

trade secret — information of commercial value in scientific-technical, technological, production, financial-economic and other spheres due to its unknown to third parties, to which there is no free access on a legal basis and the owner of this information takes measures to protect its confidentiality;

trade secret confidentiality — the state of a trade secret, when its security against leakage, disclosure and unauthorized access is ensured;

owner of a trade secret — a legal or natural person who owns, uses and disposes of a trade secret and has established a trade secret regime with respect to it;

confidant — a legal or natural person who has obtained possession and use of a trade secret on the basis of a contract with its owner;

disclosure of a trade secret — an action or inaction as a result of which information constituting a trade secret in any possible form (oral, written, other form, including with the use of technical means) becomes known to third parties without the consent of the owner of such information or a confidential person or contrary to a labor agreement (contract) or civil law agreement;

trade secret regime — a system of legal, organizational, technical and other measures restricting access to trade secrets.