A public authority shall not allow the applicant to exercise the right to access information of public importance, if it would thereby: 1) Expose to risk the life, health, safety or another vital interest of a person; 2) Imperil, obstruct or impede the prevention or detection of criminal offence, indictment for criminal offence, pretrial proceedings, trial, execution of a sentence or enforcement of punishment, any other legal proceeding, or unbiased treatment and a fair trial; 3) Seriously imperil national defense, national and public safety, or international relations; 4) Substantially undermine the government's ability to manage the national economic processes or significantly impede the fulfillment of justified economic interests; 5) Make available information or a document qualified by regulations or an official document based on the law, to be kept as a state, official, business or other secret, i.e. if such a document is accessible only to a specific group of persons and its disclosure could seriously legally or otherwise prejudice the interests that are protected by the law and outweigh the access to information interest. Information of Public Importance Held by a Public Authority and Already Accessible to the Public Article 10 A public authority need not allow the applicant the right to access information of public importance, if the information has already been published and made accessible in the country or on the Internet. In the event set out in Para 1 of this Article, a public authority shall in its response notify the applicant on the information medium (number of the official medium, name of the publication, et al), where and when the sought information was published, unless these data are common knowledge. Denial of Published Information by a Public Authority Article 11 If a public authority disputes the accuracy or completeness of information of public importance that has been published, it shall make public the accurate and complete information, i.e. shall enable insight into the document containing accurate and complete information, except in cases specified in Articles 9 and 14 of this Law. Extraction of Information Article 12 If the requested information of public importance can be extracted from other information contained in the document a public authority is not obliged to allow the applicant insight in, the public authority shall allow the applicant insight in the part of the document containing only the extracted information. Abuse of Free Access to Information of Public Importance Article 13

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