Article 2 Scope 1. This Law shall apply to all documents maintained, drawn or received by the public institutions. 2. The right of access to documents shall be exercised pursuant to this Law, without prejudice to provisions of laws and the international legal instruments providing for more rights on access to public documents. 3. This Law shall be without prejudice to the right of access to public documents maintained by institutions, which can derive from the international legal instruments or acts of enforcing institutions. Article 3 Definitions 1. Terms used in this Law shall have the following meaning: 1.1. Public institutions - the following state authorities and institutions; 1.1.1. The Government and level; administration in national, regional and local 1.1.2. lawmaking and judicial institutions, if they exercise administrative functions in accordance with laws of the Republic of Kosovo; 1.1.3. natural or legal persons if they exercise administrative authority, exercise public functions or operate by public funds in accordance with laws of the Republic of Kosovo (private vendors exercising public competences); 1.1.4. lawmaking institutions in relation to their other activities; 1.1.5. judicial institutions in relation to their other activities; and 1.1.6. independent institutions listed in or established under Chapter XII of Constitution of the Republic of Kosovo. 1.2. Public Document - any official document; 1.3. Official Document - including but not limited to, all information recorded in any form, drawn and received by the public institutions An Official Document is any official letter serving to prove or establish something, regardless its physical form or characteristics, written or typed text, maps, schedules, pictures, drawings, 2