Legislation | Prime Minister´s Office 3 of 10 http://eng.forsaetisraduneyti.is/acts-of-law//nr/15 interests, due to the material containing information on: 1. State security or defence issues 2. Relations with other States or international organisations 3. The business of state-owned or municipally owned institutions or companies insofar as they are in competition with other bodies 4. Planned measures or examinations under auspices of the State or of local authorities, if they would be rendered insignificant or not achieve their intended results by becoming known to the public 5. Environmental matters such as the location of rare species of organisms, minerals, fossils and rock formations, given that the revelation of these matters might have a serious effect on the protection of environmental aspects relating to the information. Article 7 Access to parts of documents If the provisions of Art. 4-6 apply to only part of a document, the public shall be granted access to other contents of the document. The same principle applies to other types of material. Article 8 Unrestricted right to information when a specific period has elapsed Access shall be granted to the material covered by item 4 of Art. 6 as soon as the measures or examinations are entirely finished, unless the provisions of Art. 5 or of items 1–3 of Art. 6 apply. Access shall be granted to the information covered by item 5 of Art. 6 when there is no longer any reason to expect that communication of the information might have a serious effect on the environment. Access shall be granted to other material covered by Art. 4-6 when thirty years have elapsed since the creation of the material, excluding information concerning an individual's private affairs; to which access shall not be granted until eighty years have elapsed since its creation. A party's access to informaton about itself Article 9 A party's right to information Governmental authorities shall be obliged, upon request, to grant a particular party access to documents and other material concerning a specified matter if those documents or material contain information about that party. Nonetheless, the provisions of the first paragraph do not apply to the following: 1. Material listed in Art. 4 2. Material containing information on matters of great public interest which ought to remain secret according to Art. 6 23/06/2010 12:39 PM