confidential information, and to protect public health and morality as well as their private life, dignity and other rights. CHAPTER II FREEDOM OF INFORMATION AND PROTECTION THEREOF Article 4. Freedom of Information 1. Every person shall have the right to freely express his ideas and convictions and to collect, obtain and disseminate information and ideas. The right to collect, obtain and disseminate information may not be restricted otherwise than under the law where it is necessary to protect the constitutional system, a person’s health, honour, dignity, private life and morality. 2. Unrestricted reception and re-broadcasting of television programmes from the EU Member States and other European states which have ratified the Council of Europe Convention on Transfrontier Television, broadcast in accordance with the requirements laid down in treaties of the Republic of Lithuania, shall be guaranteed in the Republic of Lithuania. Article 5. Right to Collect and Publish Information 1. Every person shall have the right to: 1) collect information and publish it in the media; 2) not give permission to publish the information produced by him if the content thereof has been distorted during the editorial production; 3) take notes, photograph, film, use audio and video technical equipment as well as other means to record information, except for the cases referred to in Article 13 of this Law; 4) publish publications or programmes under his own name, pseudonym or anonymously. 2. No one shall be forced to disseminate information relating to state or municipal institutions and agencies as well as other budgetary institutions, except for cases specified by laws. Article 6. Right to Obtain Information from State and Municipal Institutions and Agencies 1. Every person shall have the right to obtain from state and municipal institutions and agencies as well as other budgetary institutions public information relating to their activities, their official documents (copies) as well as information held by the aforementioned institutions about the requesting person. 2. State and municipal institutions and agencies must inform the public about their activities. 3. State and municipal institutions and agencies must, in accordance with the procedure established by the Law on the Right to Obtain Information from State and Municipal Agencies and other laws, provide public information as well as the available private information, except for cases in which private information is not to be provided specified by laws. 4. Information for the production whereof the accumulation of additional data is not required shall be provided to the producers and/or disseminators of public information and journalists not later than within one