(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accordance with paragraphs (1) and (2) hereunder, the information holder shall, by a conclusion, find the request to be withdrawn.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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