11) draft decisions (memoranda, petitions, statements, requests, proposals, letters, etc.); 12) form and place of the document’s storage and so on. 2. Access to the recording system, which contains information about documents that are in possession of the subject of public authority, shall be ensured by: 1) publication of such information on official web-sites of the subjects of public authority or, if the web-site does not exist, - by any other acceptable means; 2) providing access to the system in response to requests. 3. System of public information recording may not be referred to the category of information with limited access. 4. Information administrators shall bear responsibility for ensuring access to the recording system in accordance with the law. Chapter ІV. EXERCIZING THE RIGHT OF ACCESS TO INFORMATION BY MEANS OF INFORMATION REQUEST Article 19. Preparation of Information Requests 1. Information request shall mean a request of person to information administrator to provide public information that is in its possession. 2. A requester shall have the right to address the information administrator with information request regardless of whether this information concerns him personally or not and without having to explain the reasons for submitting the request. 3. Information request may be individual or collective. Requests may be submitted orally, in writing or in other form (by mail, fax, phone, e-mail) as chosen by the requester. 4. A written request may be submitted in any form. 5. Information request shall contain: 1) the name of the requester, postal address or e-mail, as well as the number of communications means if available; 2) general description of information or type, name, number or content of the requested document, if the requester knows it; 3) signature and date if the request is submitted in writing. 6. To simplify the procedure for preparing written information requests, a person may submit request by filling relevant forms of information requests which can be obtained from the information administrator and on the official web-site of the respective administrator. The forms shall contain a brief instruction on how the information request is to be submitted and information obtained. Translated for the Council of Europe/EU Project “Promotion of European standards in the Ukrainian media environment”. Translation edited by Dmytro Kotlyar. 10

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