1) 'Beneficiary of the right of access to information and re-use of information' (hereinafter: the beneficiary) shall mean any local or foreign natural and legal person; 2) 'Public authorities', within the meaning of this Act, shall mean the state administration and other government bodies, bodies of local and regional self-government, legal persons vested with public authority and other persons to whom public authority has been delegated, legal persons established by the Republic of Croatia or local or regional self-government units, legal and other persons providing public services, legal persons entirely funded from the state budget or from the budgets of respective local or regional self-government units, as well as companies in which the Republic of Croatia and local or regional self-government units have a majority interest, separately or jointly; 3) 'Information' shall mean any data owned by a public authority in the form of a document, record, file, register or any other form, regardless of the manner in which it is presented (written, drawn, printed, recorded, magnetic, optical, electronic or any other recording); 4) 'International information' shall mean the information imparted to the Republic of Croatia by a foreign country or international organisation with which the Republic of Croatia cooperates or is a member of; 5) 'Right of access to information' shall mean the right of the beneficiary to request and obtain information, as well as the obligation of a public authority to enable access to the requested information, or to publish information regardless of the submitted request where such publication arises out of the obligation stipulated by law or other regulation; 6) 'Re-use' shall mean any use of public authority information by any natural or legal person, for commercial or non-commercial purposes other than the original purpose within the scope of public activities for which this information was created. The exchange of information among public authorities for the purpose of performing activities within their scope of work shall not be considered re-use; 7) 'Proportionality and public interest test' shall mean the assessment of proportionality between the reasons to enable access to information and reasons for restricting and allowing access to information where public interest prevails; 8) 'Information owner', within the meaning of this Act, shall mean the competent public authority of the Republic of Croatia or a foreign country or an international organisation, within the scope of whose work the information was created; 9) 'Central Catalogue of Official Documents of the Republic of Croatia' shall mean the online tool enabling the users to have permanent access to the documents stored in the electronic document database and/or physical collections, through a complete text and/or an arranged group of metadata; 10) 'Information Commissioner' (hereinafter: the Commissioner) shall mean the independent government body for the protection of the right of access to information. II. PRINCIPLES Principle of publicity and free access 3