(1) For the purpose of this Act, the "applicant" any natural person or legal entity requesting
information.
(2) For the purpose of this Act, "remote access possibilities" shall represent access to
information provided to an unlimited number of applicants through network or service of
electronically communications 2).
(3) For the purpose of this Act, "information" shall mean any contents or its part in any form
recorded on any medium, namely the contents of a written record in a document, record in an
electronic form or an audio, visual or audiovisual record.
(4) A computer program shall not represent information for the purpose of this Act.
(5) For the purpose of this Act, "published information" shall mean information that may be
retrieved and obtained repeatedly at all times, namely information published in print or using
any other data carrier allowing such information to be recorded and kept, posted on an official
bulletin board, with remote access possibility, or placed in a public library providing public
library and information services under the Library Act 2a).
(6) For the purpose of this Act, "supporting information" shall mean any information closely
associated with the requested information (such as any information regarding their existence,
origin, number, reason for rejection, the duration of the existence of a reason for rejection and
when it is to be reviewed, as well as any other important factors).
Section 4 - Provision of information
(1) Obligated bodies shall provide information to the applicant based on a request or by
publication.
(2) Information provided by publication shall be provided in all formats and languages they
have been created in. If such information are published in an electronic format, they must also
be published in a format, the specification of which is freely available and the usage by the
user is not limited.
(3) If information are provided based on a request, they shall be provided in formats and
languages defined in the request to information, unless stated otherwise herein. The obligated
bodies are not obliged to change the format or the language of the information if such change
represented undue burden for the obligated body; in such cases, the obligated body shall
satisfy the request by providing the information in the format or language in which they have
been created.
(4) If the requested information form part of a bigger whole and their extraction would
represent undue burden for the obligated body, the obligated body shall provide this whole in
accordance with this Act.
(5) If possible with regards to the nature of the submitted request and the manner in which the
requested information have been recorded, the obligated bodies shall provide the information
in an electronic form.
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