1 (3) (2) (3) in cases relating to a service or procurement contract or any other contract based on tenders, a request for information supplementary to the tender and any other accounts and documents prepared for the consideration of such tenders enter the public domain when the contract has been awarded; (4) the budget propositions of ministries and the agencies and institutions within their fields of competence enter the public domain when the Ministry of Finance has signed its first position on the budget proposition; thereafter, the propositions sent to the Ministry of Finance from the other ministries and the other propositions drafted for and included in the budget proposal enter the public domain when the budget proposal has been submitted to Parliament; (5) studies and statistics, as well as other comparable accounts which, forming a coherent whole, contain information on the alternatives, reasons and impacts pertaining to a decision or plan of general importance, even when they otherwise concern unfinished business, enter the public domain when they are fit for their purpose; (6) minutes enter the public domain when they have been scrutinised and signed or confirmed in a comparable manner, unless they have been kept for the preparation of a matter or for the internal use of the authority; (7) a court order or judgment enters the public domain from the moment it is handed down or when it is made available to the parties; (8) a decision, a statement, an instrument and a contractual commitment of an authority, as well as the pertinent memoranda, minutes and other documents not referred to in subparagraphs (1)—(3) or (5)—(7), enter the public domain when the decision, statement, instrument or contract has been signed or confirmed in a corresponding manner; (9) a document not referred to in subparagraphs (1)—(3) or (5)—(7) enters the public domain when the consideration of the pertinent matter has been concluded by that authority. Notwithstanding the provisions in paragraph (1), commission reports, discussion papers and other similar documents intended for general dissemination enter the public domain when they are in the possession of an authority for dissemination. If an instrument or other document is to be issued, the authority shall, where necessary, make its best effort to provide the parties to the matter with information on the contents of the document before it enters the public domain. Section 7 — When a document delivered to an authority enters the public domain (1) Unless otherwise provided on document publicity or secrecy or another restriction of access to information in this Act or another Act, a document delivered to an authority for the consideration of a matter or otherwise in connection with a matter within its jurisdiction or duties shall enter the public domain when the authority has received it. (2) Expert opinions and other such documents that are to be opened at a given time or after the lapse of a given period shall enter the public domain, subject to the restrictions referred to in paragraph (1), after the moment they have been opened. Procurement, service and other tenders that have been delivered to an authority on the basis of an invitation to tender and that result in a contract enter the public domain, subject to the restrictions referred to in paragraph (1), when the contract is awarded. (3) Unless otherwise provided in the rules of secrecy or some other restrictions of access, a document that can be deciphered only by means of a device enters the public domain at the earliest when it is available to an authority or a person acting on behalf of the authority. Section 8 — General dissemination of a document Statistics on the development of the national economy, initiatives and action plans of economic policy and other similar documents the contents of which could 3

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