Training of Staff Article 42 With the aim of effectively implementing this Law, a state body shall train its staff and instruct its employees on their obligations regarding the rights regulated by this Law. The staff training in Para 1 of this Article shall notably include: the content, scope and importance of the right to access information of public importance, the procedure for exercising those rights, the procedure for administering, maintaining, and safeguarding information mediums, and types of data which the state body is obliged to publish. Reporting to the Commissioner Article 43 A state body authorized person shall submit an annual report to the Commissioner on the activities of the body undertaken with the aim of implementing this Law, which shall contain the following data: 1) Number of submitted requests, number of wholly or partly approved requests and the number of rejected or dismissed requests; 2) Number and content of the complaints against the decisions to reject or dismiss a request; 3) Total sum of fees charged for the exercise of the right to access information of public importance; 4) Measures taken with regard to the obligation to publish a directory; 5) Measures taken with regard to maintaining information mediums; 6) Measures taken with regard to staff training. VII Compensation of Damages Article 44 The public authority shall be held liable for damages caused by the inability of a media outlet to publish information because a public authority had without justification denied or limited its rights to access information of public importance from Article 5 of this Law, i.e. because a public authority gave preference to a journalist or media outlet in contravention of provisions of Article 7 of this Law. VIII Supervision Article 45 The implementation of this Law of shall be supervised by the Ministry in charge of information affairs. IX Punitive Provisions Article 46 A fine between 5,000 and 50,000 dinars shall be imposed upon the authorized person in a public authority if the public authority: 1. Acts in contravention of the principle of equality (Article 6);

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