(3) Information on the management of public resources shall be available to the public even
without conducting the procedure referred to in paragraph 1 of this article, unless the
information constitutes classified information.
V. PROCEDURAL PROVISIONS
Methods of exercising the right of access to information
Article 17
(1) Public authorities shall enable access to information by:
1) publishing information on their work in a timely, appropriate and accessible manner on the
website of public authorities or in a public journal and the Central Catalogue of Official
Documents of the Republic of Croatia, for the purpose of informing the public;
2) providing the information to the beneficiary who has submitted a request for access to
information in one of the following ways:
– direct provision of information;
– provision of information in writing;
– inspecting the documents and making copies of the documents containing the requested
information;
– delivering copies of the document containing the requested information;
– any other way suitable for the exercise of the right of access to information.
(2) In the request for access to information, the beneficiary may indicate suitable way of
receiving the information, and if not indicated, the information shall be delivered in the same
way in which the request was submitted.
Request
Article 18
(1) A beneficiary may exercise the right of access to information by submitting an oral or a
written request to the competent body.
(2) If the request is submitted orally or by telephone, an official note shall be drawn up, and if
it is submitted by e-mail, the request shall be considered submitted in writing.
(3) A written request shall contain: the name and the seat of the public authority to which the
request is submitted, data important for the recognition of the requested information, full
name of the natural person submitting the request, company or the name of the legal person
and its registered office.
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