Unofficial translation Amendments as of September 2014 (3) When the party requesting information believes that his/her rights and legitimate interests have been violated, he/she may contest the actions of the person in charge of receiving and examining requests for access to information, and especially in matters regarding: a) unjustified refusal to accept and register the request; b) refusal to provide free and unconditional access to public records held by the information provider; c) violation of terms and procedures of responding to an information-access request; d) failure to provide adequately, or not providing at all the requested information; e) groundless refusal to provide the requested information; f) groundless classification of information as state secret, trade secret or as other official information with limited access; g) unjustified declaration of some information secret; h) the establishment of a fee and its amount for the provided information; i) causing of material and/or moral damages by an illegal deed of the information provider. (4) During dispute-solving concerning access to information, the competent bodies will undertake necessary measures for the protection of the rights of all interested persons that can possibly be violated by means of information disclosure, including the assuring of the participation of those in the proceedings as third persons. (5) The judicial institution, during the dispute settlement concerning access to information, will undertake all reasonable and sufficient measures for precaution, including, if necessary, the organization of closed meetings, for not disclosing information, limited access to which can be justified. Article 22. Extrajudicial appeal against the information provider's actions (1) When the party requesting information believes that his/her rights and legitimate interests to access information have been violated, he/she may contest the actions of the person in charge of receiving and examining information-access requests during a 30-day period form the date when he or she found out or was supposed to find out about the violation to the top management of the information provider or/and to the higher body in hierarchy. (2) The top management of the information provider or/and the higher body in hierarchy will examine the information solicitor's petition during a period of 5 working days and will inform him/her about the results of the examination during 3 working days. (3) Notifications, by which actions or lack of actions of the organizations that have no higher body are contested, are addressed directly to the judicial institution. Article 23. Legal appeal of the information provider's actions

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