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Law n°83-2000 translated for information purpose - Not to be quoted The owner of the certificate or a third party objects to the suspension decision of the certification services provider on the date of its publication in the electronic record mentioned in Article 14 this act. Article 20: The certification services provider revokes the certificate immediately when the following conditions occur: • Upon request of the certificate owner ; • Upon being informed of the death of the person or the dissolution of the corporate body owner of the certificate; • Upon conclusion after thorough testing after its withdrawal, that the information is false or counterfeit or that it does not correspond to reality or that the signature establishment solution has been breached or that the certificate has been used in a forged manner. The owner of the certificate or a third party objects to the revoke decision of the certification service provider on the date of its publication in the electronic record mentioned in Article 14 of this act. Article 21: The owner of the certificate is the sole responsible on the confidentiality and the security of the signature establishment solution he is using, and any use of this solution is considered emanating from him. The owner of the certificate shall inform the certification services provider on any change of information included in the certificate. The owner of the suspended or revoked certificate; ay not use the personal signature encryption elements of that certificate to seek certification of the same elements anew at another certification services provider. Article 22: The certification services provider shall be responsible on each one of the damages ensuing to every person who trusted in good will in the guarantees mentioned in Article 18 of this act. The certification services provider shall also be responsible on the damage ensuing to every person caused by failure to suspending or revoking of a certificate according to Articles 19 and 20 of this act. The certification services provider shall not be responsible on the damage ensuing from the non6compliance by the owner of the certificate with its usage rules or with the rules of his signature establishment solution. Article 23: Certifications delivered by a certification services provider residing in a foreign country shall be considered the same as certificates delivered by a certification services provider residing in Tunisia if the foreign provider is recognized within the context of a mutual recognition agreement signed by The National Certification Agency. Article 24: The certification services provider that intends to cease its activities shall inform The National Certification Agency at least three months prior to the date of cessation of activities. The certification services provider may transfer a portion or all of its activities over to another provider, such transfer shall occur according to the following rules: • Informing the owners of active certificates of his intention to transfer the certificates to another provider one month at least prior to the expected transfer; • Informing the owners of the certificates of the possibility of refusing the expected transfer as well as of the deadlines and methods for the refusal. Certificates, whose owners expressed by this deadline their refusal in writing or electronically, shall be revoked,. In the case of death or bankruptcy or dissolution or liquidation of the certification services provider, his inheritors or his agents or the liquidators are subject to the provisions of paragraph two of this Article during a three-month deadline period. In all cases of cessation of activity, personal information that remained under the control of the provider shall be destroyed in the presence of a representative of The National Certification Agency.

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