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Article 30Requests for Protective Handling of Trade Secrets in the Disclosure of Evidence

第三十条(証拠開示の際の営業秘密の秘匿要請)

If the public prosecutor or defense counsel finds that, in providing an opportunity to inspect documentary or material evidence pursuant to the provisions of in a case prescribed in Article 23, paragraph (1), there is a risk that disclosing a matter that would identify all or part of the information constituting trade secrets, as prescribed in Article 23, paragraph (1) or (3), would significantly hinder the business activities of the victim, the accused, or others based on those trade secrets, the public prosecutor or defense counsel may notify the opposing party of this risk and request that the opportunity be provided in such a way that the concerned parties (including the accused) do not learn of the matters, unless those matters are necessary for proving or investigating the offence, or for the defense of the accused; provided, however, that a request to provide the opportunity in such a way that the accused does not learn of the matters is limited solely to matters not written in the charging sheet.

検察官又は弁護人は、第二十三条第一項に規定する事件について、の規定により証拠書類又は証拠物を閲覧する機会を与えるに当たり、第二十三条第一項又は第三項に規定する営業秘密を構成する情報の全部又は一部を特定させることとなる事項が明らかにされることにより当該営業秘密に基づく被害者、被告人その他の者の事業活動に著しい支障を生ずるおそれがあると認めるときは、相手方に対し、その旨を告げ、当該事項が、犯罪の証明若しくは犯罪の捜査又は被告人の防御に関し必要がある場合を除き、関係者(被告人を含む。)に知られないようにすることを求めることができる。ただし、被告人に知られないようにすることを求めることについては、当該事項のうち起訴状に記載された事項以外のものに限る。

The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis if the public prosecutor or defense counsel discloses evidence under the provisions of Part II, Chapter III, Section 2, Subsection 1, Division 2 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the provisions of of the same Code).

前項の規定は、検察官又は弁護人が刑事訴訟法第二編第三章第二節第一款第二目(において準用する場合を含む。)の規定による証拠の開示をする場合について準用する。

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