5) assess compliance with the principles of provision of information to the public set forth in this Law and other laws and legal acts regulating the provision of information to the public in providing information to the public; 6) submit proposals to the Seimas and other state institutions for improving this Law and other laws and legal acts regulating the provision of information to the public and implementation thereof; 7) on the basis of the conclusions of experts (groups of experts), assign press publications, audiovisual works, radio and television programmes or parts of programmes, the information society media or other media and/or their content to the categories of information of erotic, pornographic and/or violent nature and inform the State Tax Inspectorate under the Ministry of Finance about press publications of erotic and/or violent nature; 8) on the basis of the conclusions of experts (groups of experts), establish whether public information published in the media incites discord on grounds of sex, sexual orientation, race, nationality, language, origin, social status, belief, convictions or views; 9) cooperate with counterpart institutions of the European Union and other countries and, within the scope of his competence, represent the Republic of Lithuania in international organisations; 10) draw up and publish every two years an analytical survey – the guidelines for the development of a democratic culture in the field of provision of information to the public; 11) carry out monitoring of public information in the media, except for monitoring of radio and television programmes. 2. In performing the functions specified in paragraph 1 of this Article, the Inspector shall have the right to: 1) having information about violations that have not been specified in the complaints (applications), on his own initiative commence an investigation in accordance with the procedure set forth by this Law or refer the collected material to other competent state institutions for investigation; 2) in accordance with the procedure established by this Law, obtain free of charge information from producers and disseminators of public information, including information published in the media managed by them (video and audio recordings of broadcast programmes, specimen of publications and copies thereof) necessary for the exercise of his functions; 3) obtain information, documents and other material necessary for the exercise of his functions from state and municipal institutions and agencies free of charge; 4) in accordance with the procedure set forth by laws, however only to the extend it is necessary to perform his functions, get access to documents constituting a state, official, commercial or bank secret, also documents containing information about personal data protected by laws; 5) without violating the rights and legitimate interests of persons, film, make photographs, sound and video recordings and use any other technical means during investigations in accordance with the procedure prescribed by laws; 6) attend the sittings and meetings organised by the Seimas, the Government and other state institutions, take part in the activities of commissions and working groups set up by them, attend the