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h.
in the interest of national defence;
in the interest of national security;
to prosecute or prevent offences;
in the interest of environmental protection or nature preservation;
in the interest of central financial and exchange rate policy;
in regard to foreign relations and relations with international organisations;
in regard to legal or administrative proceedings;
in regard to intellectual property rights.
(3) The relevant provisions set out in the Civil Code regulate access to business secrets.
(4) Access to data of public interest may be restricted on the grounds of EU contractual clauses in
regard to major financial or economic policy interests of the European Union, equally including
interests pertaining to monetary, budgetary and tax policies.
(5) Data generated or registered during the course of a procedure aimed at the body undertaking
public duties making a decision within its respective scope of responsibilities and authority and
serving as a basis for making this decision cannot be disclosed for a period of 10 years following
the date this data was generated or registered. The competent executive of the body controlling this
data is entitled to authorise access to this data by considering the gravity of the given public interest
relating to ensuring or denying access to this data.
(6) Requests for access to data serving as a basis for decision-making may be rejected – within the
period defined in subsection (5) – should accessing this data potentially interfere with the legal
operational procedure of the body undertaking public duties or the delivery of its scope of
responsibilities and authority devoid of unauthorised outside influence, and therefore, in particular,
free expression of the position of the body which generated the data during decision preparation.
(7) Legislation regulating restrictions to accessing certain data serving as a basis for decisionmaking may specify a shorter period than specified in subsection (5).
(8) Provisions set out in the present chapter cannot be applied to the provision of data from registers
regulated under separate legislation.
21. Demand for Accessing Data of Public Interest
Section 28
(1) Requests for accessing data of public interest may be made verbally, submitted in writing or
electronically by anyone. Provisions governing accessing data of public interest must be applied to
access public data of public interest.
(2) Should it not be otherwise regulated by law, the personal data of the applicant submitting the
request may only be controlled should this be necessary for processing the request and paying the
fee charged for making copies. The personal data of the applicant must be immediately deleted after
the request is processed and the fee is paid.
(3) should the data request be incomplete or unclear, the controller requests further specification
from the applicant.
Section 29
(1) The body undertaking public duties controlling the data shall satisfy the requirements relating to
accessing data of public interest within the shortest possible space of time, but within a maximum
period of 15 days.
(2) The deadline set in subsection (1) may be extended once by 15 days should the request for data
concern an extensive and large volume of data. The applicant must be notified of this within a
period of eight days following the receipt of the request.
(3) The applicant is entitled to receive a copy of the documents or document section containing the