File:Coat of arms of Belarus (1995-2021).svg

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DescriptionCoat of arms of Belarus (1995-2021).svg	The Official coloured variant of the Coat of arms of the Republic of Belarus
Date	24 August 2015 Adopted in 2012, however the previous version dates back to 1995 when it was abopted on a national referendum in Belarus.
Source	Own work This coat of arms is described in the law of Belarus [1]
Author	Tankist-777
Other versions	Official coat of arms of the Republic of Belarus.jpg Emblem of Belarus.svg
SVG development InfoField	The SVG code is valid. This insignia was created with Inkscape.

Licensing

This work is not an object of copyright according to the Law of the Belarus No. 370-XIII of May 16, 1996 on Copyright and Neighbouring Rights.

Article 8. Works that are not Objects of Copyright

Shall not be objects of copyright:
- formal documents (laws, judgements, other texts of legal, administrative and judicial nature), and also their official translations;
- state symbols and signs (flag, coat of arms, anthem, awards, banknotes and other signs^[1]);
- works of folk arts, authors of which are not known.
Copyright does not cover ideas, processes, systems, methods of operation, concepts, principles, discoveries or simply information as such, even if they are expressed, reflected, explained or embodied in the work.

Full text of the Law: in Russian, in English.

↑ Postage stamps are state signs according to the Article 1 of the Law of the Republic of Belarus No. 258-З of December 15, 2003 on Mail Service (ru) почтовая марка – государственный знак почтовой оплаты, отпечатанный на бумаге и имеющий художественное изображение, а также надписи «БЕЛАРУСЬ», «BELARUS», год выпуска (арабскими цифрами) и номинальную стоимость (арабскими цифрами). Допускается литерное обозначение номинальной стоимости почтовой марки;

Comment – According to interstate and international compacts the Republic of Belarus is the legal successor of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, therefore this license tag is also applicable to official symbols and formal documents of the Byelorussian SSR.

Warning – This license tag cannot be applied to proposed official symbols and drafts of the formal documents, which can be copyrighted.

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Georgia's parliament: On Amending the Law of Georgia "Charter of Liberty", No. 1867, 2013
Hungary: Act C of 2012 on the Criminal Code, Section 335
Indonesia's People's Consultative Assembly: UU No. 27/1999
Latvia's Saeima: Amendments to the Law on the Safety of Public Entertainment and Festivity Events (OP 2013/129.4). Ban only applies at public events.
Lithuania's Constitutional Court confirms Article 188¹⁸ of the Code of Administrative Offences. Collection, antiquarian trade and educational activities are exempt from the ban.
South Korea's National Security Act (prohibited for symbols or emblems related to North Korea)
Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada (article 436-1 of the Criminal code of Ukraine)

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File history

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	16:48, 4 December 2020	741 × 720 (1.23 MB)	Добромир Костадинов	symmetry
	02:17, 28 October 2018	756 × 756 (1.25 MB)	Thespoondragon	removed blur
	18:30, 14 January 2016	756 × 756 (1.31 MB)	Great Brightstar	Rewrite the Belarusian text
	10:07, 26 August 2015	756 × 756 (1.31 MB)	Tankist-777	буквы, ткань
	05:42, 26 August 2015	756 × 756 (1.31 MB)	Tankist-777	буквы
	05:38, 26 August 2015	756 × 756 (1.31 MB)	Tankist-777	буквы
	05:13, 26 August 2015	756 × 756 (1.31 MB)	Tankist-777	буквы
	07:08, 24 August 2015	756 × 756 (1.31 MB)	Tankist-777	User created page with UploadWizard