Albanian Competition Law protects business secrets, including trade secrets. Article 49.1 of the law prohibits disclosing business or operative secrets of competitors in an illegal manner or encouraging the competitors' employees to do so. Article 49.2 forbids using or giving others business or operative secrets obtained in the course of employment or other confidential relations during the term of those relations in order to gain competitive advantage for oneself or a third party or to damage the owner of a commercial company. The obligation continues for a period of two years after the employment or confidential relationship is terminated if the owner of the business or operative secret has a justifiable interest and the obligation does not unreasonably restrict the business or professional activity of others.
Albanian pharmaceutical legislation does not grant any defined period of time for the protection of undisclosed information. Neither the legislation on plant protection products.
