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Criminalises unauthorised access and interception (Arts 2-4), content offences, forgery and impersonation or fraud (Arts 5-11), misuse of electronic transaction cards (Art. 12) and intellectual property violations (Art. 13). Article 21 requires service providers to keep user information for a year and to retain IT, traffic and content data for 90 days, renewable, on request; Article 22 requires state bodies and corporations to keep IT and user data for at least 120 days. The source is an unofficial translation dated 18 September 2014.