5. Responsibility of RTA SPMD and ICTRC (Publisher)

1. A publisher shall provide the TurnitIn Similarity plagiarism checker on the website journals.rta.lv. 
2. SPMD shall ensure that editors, reviewers and authors declare potential financial and non-financial conflicts-of-interest in order to ensure transparency in the publishing process. 
3. If an editor informs that a complaint of ethical misconduct has been received, a publisher shall suspend publication if a paper has already been accepted for publication, or withdraw a paper if the ethical misconduct is discovered after publication.