National Assembly Legislation Chapter II The Commission’s Goals and Purposes 3. The Commission aims to ensure the right of access to: 1) Information maintained by State bodies in accordance with the various levels of government of any person or any party that requests it with exceptions applied only in an exclusive and specific manner. 2) Ensure and facilitate the citizen’s right to access information, and expand and exercise the principles of rights and freedoms. 3) Reinforce the essential components of transparency, distribute opportunities of active and responsible participation and enable the society to build its capacities. Chapter III The Commission Establish the Commission and its head office, and exercise oversight of it 4. 1) By virtue of this law, a commission called the “Commission for the Right to Access Information” shall be established; it shall have legal personality, perpetual succession and a public seal. 2) The Commission shall include one full-time commissioner and seven members with the necessary expertise, skills and competence on a part-time basis. 3) The Commission is subject to the oversight of the competent minister. 4) The head office of the Commission shall be located in Khartoum State and it may establish branches in other states. The Commission’s competences 5. 1) The Commission shall assume the following functions and competences: a) Ensure the provision of information to the persons requesting it within the scope of the law. b) Oversight and periodic review of each public institution, and verification of the extent to which they provide access to their information in accordance with this law.