Federal Law "On Providing Access to Information on the Activities of Government Bodies and Bodies of Local Self-Government", No. 8-FZ, February 9, 2009 Submitted by Inna Kremen on 27 July, 2010 - 15:32 RUSSIAN FEDERATION Federal Law On Providing Access to Information on the Activities of Government Bodies and Bodies of Local Self-Government Adopted by the State Duma on January 21, 2009 Approved by the Council of Federation on January 28, 2009 Amended: 1. by the Federal Law #200-FZ from July 11, 2011 “On Introducing Changes to Specific Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation due to Approval of the Federal Law “On Information, Information Technologies, and Information Protection”” 2. by the federal law #112-FZ from June 7, 2013 “On Amending the Federal Law "On Information, Information Technologies and Protection of Information" and the Federal Law "On Access to information about the activities of state bodies and local self-government"” Chapter 1. General Provisions Article 1. Basic Definitions Used in the Present Federal Law For the present Federal Law, the following basic definitions have been used: 1. Information on the activities of government bodies and bodies of local selfgovernment – information (including documented), created by government bodies, their territorial bodies, bodies of local self-government or organizations subordinate to government bodies, bodies of local self-government (hereinafter referred to as the subordinate organizations), acting within their competence, or received by the above-specified bodies and organizations. Information on the activities of government bodies and bodies of local self-government also includes laws and other normative legal acts concerning information on the activities of bodies of local selfgovernment – municipal legal acts defining structure, competence, formation and operating procedures of the above-specified bodies and organizations, and other information concerning their activity; 2. government bodies – government authorities of the Russian Federation, government authorities of subjects of the Russian Federation and other government bodies, formed according to the legislation of the Russian Federation and the legislation of subjects of the Russian Federation; 3. information user – the citizen (natural person), organization (legal entity), or public association, carrying out a search for information on the activities of government bodies and bodies of local self-government. Information users are also government bodies and bodies of local self-government, which are carrying out a search of the above-specified information in accordance with the present Federal Law; 4. request – application of the information user in oral or written form,