(2) Each request shall contain the title of the information holder, the personal name
and surname of the information requester, data on the possible representative or
authorized person, the firm or the legal person.
(3) In its request, the requester shall be obliged to state the information it wants to
become acquainted with, and the way in which it wants to become acquainted with
the contents of the information requested (insight, transcript, photocopy, electronic
record).
(4) The requester shall not be obliged to provide justification to its request, but it shall
have to state that it is submitting a request for access to information.
(5) If, on the basis of the subject of a request, it is to be concluded that the procedure
is about a request to access information in accordance with the present Law, the
information holder shall be obliged to consider such a request in accordance with the
present Law.
6. Request supplementing and rejecting
Article 17
(1) If an information request is incomplete and if, due to this fact, the information
holder is not able to act thereon, it shall ask the information requester to supplement
its request and shall clearly specify the consequences if the requester fails to do so.
The requester shall be bound to amend its request within three days following the date
of its receipt of the notification on the need of supplementing the information request.
(2) The official in charge of information mediation shall be bound to provide the
requester with appropriate assistance in the supplementing of the latter’s request.
(3) Should the requester fail to act in accordance with paragraphs (1) and (2)
hereunder, the information holder shall, by a conclusion, find the request to be
withdrawn.
(4) Should a request, even after being supplemented, fail to meet the requirements
mentioned in Article 16 of the present Law, and should the information holder, due to
this fact, be prevented from considering such a request, the information holder shall
adopt a decision whereby such a request shall be rejected.
7. Request forwarding
Article 18
(1) If the information holder having received an information request does not dispose
with the information requested, it shall, immediately, and within ten days following
its receipt of the request at latest, be obliged to forward this request to the information
holder that, according to the contents of the request in question, is considered to be
the holder of the information requested, and shall inform the requester accordingly.
(2) The prescribed time period to provide information shall commence from the day
the request mentioned in paragraph (1) hereunder is received by the information
holder to whom such request has been forwarded.
Article 19
The procedure following a request to access information of public character shall be
maintained by the official mentioned in Article 8 of the present Law.
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