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Law n°83-2000 translated for information purpose - Not to be quoted Article 40: It is forbidden for users of personal data gathered according to Article 39 of this act to send electronic documents to the certificate owner who clearly refuses to accept them. The certificate owner must notify The National Certification Agency of his objection via a registered letter with notification of delivery. This notification is considered as a legal presumption that all certificate service providers or third parties are aware of this objection. Article 41: Before any processing of personal data, the certificate services provider must inform the certificate owner, via a special notification, of the procedures he follows for protecting personal data. Those procedures must allow the certificate owner to review the content to the date in an automatic and simplified manner. Those procedures must specify the identity of the processing manager, the nature of data, the purposes for the processing, the categories and the sites of the processing and eventually, all information needed to ensure a secured data processing. Article 42: The certificate owner may, et any time, upon a hand or electronically signed request, have access to his personal information and update it. The access and update right covers entering all personal date areas related to the certificate owner. The certification services provider shall install all necessary technical means to allow the owner of the certificate to send his signed request for updating or deleting information in an electronic manner. Chapter VI: On Infractions and Penalties Article 43: Infractions to this act are subject to investigation by the judicial police and sworn agents of the ministry in charge of communication Technologies and of the National Certification Agency and the agents of Economic Inspection according to the rules mentioned in Act n: 64 of the year 1991 dated 29 July 1991 related to competition and pricing and the texts amending and supplementing it. Article 44: The license is withdrawn from the certification services provider and his activity is stopped, if he breaches his obligations stipulated in this act or in its enforcements texts. The National Certification Agency shall carry the withdrawal duty after hearing the involved provider. Article 45: In addition to the sanctions stated in Article 44 of this act, each certification services provider who did not comply with the requisites of the Schedule of Rules states in Article 12 of this act shall be reprimanded to pay a fine ranging from 1,000 to 10,000 dinars. Article 46: Anyone who engages in the activity of certification services provider without prior procuring a license in conformity with Article 11 of this act, shall be penalized with a jail term ranging two months and three years and to pay a fine ranging from 1,000 to 10,000 dinars. Article 47 : Anyone who gives with premeditation false information to a certification services provider and to all parties he has requested to have confidence in his signature, shall be penalized with a jail term ranging from six months and two years and with a fine ranging from 1,000 and 10,000 dinars or with one of the two penalties. Article 48: Anyone who illegally uses personal encryption elements related to someone else's signature shall be penalized with a jail term ranging from six months and two years and a fine ranging from 1,000 to 10,000 dinars or with one of the two penalties. Article 49: Anyone who breaches the rules stated in Articles 25, 27 and 29, and in the second paragraph of Article 31 and in Article 34 and in the first paragraph of Article 35 of this act, shall be penalized with a fine ranging from 500 and 5,000 dinars. Article 50 : Anyone who exploits the weakness or ignorance of a person in the context of electronic sales operations by pushing him to agree presently or in the future in any manner shall be penalized with a fine ranging from 1,000 and 20,000 dinars, and this if it has been proved within the facts of circumstances that this person is unable to distinguish the dimensions of his contractual commitments or uncovering

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