Article 26. Cases of exemption from responsibility for dissemination of data that does not comply with reality

Editor-in-chief (editor) equally with a journalist shall not carry responsibility for dissemination of data that does not comply with reality in the mass media:

1) if official messages and documents contained this data;

2) if the data was received from advertisement and information agencies or press services at government agencies;

3) if the data is an exact quotation of official statements made by deputies from representative agencies, government officials, organizations and citizens;

4) if this data was in author’s speeches that were broadcast with no preliminary recording or in texts that are not subject to editing in accordance with the present Law;

5) if this data was in mandatory in accordance with Article 18 hereof messages.