Section 3
Protection of special public
interests
The entitlement to access to information shall not apply
1. where disclosure of the information may have detrimental effects on
a) international relations,
b) military and other security-critical interests of the Federal Armed Forces,
c) internal or external security interests,
d) monitoring or supervisory tasks of the financial, competition and regulatory
authorities,
e) matters of external financial control,
f)
measures to prevent illicit foreign trade,
g) the course of current judicial proceedings, a person’
s entitlement to a fair trial
or the pursuit of investigations into criminal, administrative or disciplinary
offences,
2. where disclosure of the information may endanger public safety,
3. where and for as long as
a) the necessary confidentiality of international negotiations or
b) consultations between authorities are compromised,
4. where the information is subject to an obligation to observe secrecy or
confidentiality by virtue of a statutory regulation or the general administrative
regulation on the material and organisational protection of classified information,
or where the information is subject to professional or special official secrecy,
5. with regard to information obtained on a temporary basis from another public
body which is not intended to form part of the authority’
s own files,
6. where disclosure of the information would be capable of compromising fiscal
interests of the Federal Government in trade and commerce or economic
interests of the social insurance institutions,
7. in the case of information obtained or transferred in confidence, where the third
party’
s interest in confidential treatment still applies at the time of the application
for access to the information,
8. with regard to the intelligence services and the authorities and other public bodies
of the Federal Government, where these perform duties pursuant to Section 10,
no. 3 of the Security Clearance Check Act (SÜG).