Training of Staff
Article 42
With the aim of effectively implementing this Law, a state body shall train its
staff and instruct its employees on their obligations regarding the rights regulated by this
Law.
The staff training in Para 1 of this Article shall notably include: the content, scope
and importance of the right to access information of public importance, the procedure for
exercising those rights, the procedure for administering, maintaining, and safeguarding
information mediums, and types of data which the state body is obliged to publish.
Reporting to the Commissioner
Article 43
A state body authorized person shall submit an annual report to the Commissioner
on the activities of the body undertaken with the aim of implementing this Law, which
shall contain the following data:
1) Number of submitted requests, number of wholly or partly approved requests and
the number of rejected or dismissed requests;
2) Number and content of the complaints against the decisions to reject or dismiss a
request;
3) Total sum of fees charged for the exercise of the right to access information of
public importance;
4) Measures taken with regard to the obligation to publish a directory;
5) Measures taken with regard to maintaining information mediums;
6) Measures taken with regard to staff training.
VII Compensation of Damages
Article 44
The public authority shall be held liable for damages caused by the inability of a
media outlet to publish information because a public authority had without justification
denied or limited its rights to access information of public importance from Article 5 of
this Law, i.e. because a public authority gave preference to a journalist or media outlet in
contravention of provisions of Article 7 of this Law.
VIII Supervision
Article 45
The implementation of this Law of shall be supervised by the Ministry in charge
of information affairs.
IX Punitive Provisions
Article 46
A fine between 5,000 and 50,000 dinars shall be imposed upon the authorized
person in a public authority if the public authority:
1. Acts in contravention of the principle of equality (Article 6);
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