3. the inspection, control or other supervisory activities of
a public authority;
4. the interests of preventing or prosecuting crime;
5. the economic interests of the public institutions;
6. the protection of the personal
circumstances of individuals; or
or
economic
7. the preservation of animal or plant species.
Any restriction of the right of access to official documents
shall be scrupulously specified in a provision of a special act of
law, or, if deemed more appropriate in a particular case, in
another act of law to which the special act refers. With
authority in such a provision, the Government may however
issue more detailed provisions for its application in an
ordinance.
The provisions of paragraph two notwithstanding, the
Riksdag or the Government may be authorised, in a regulation
under paragraph two, to permit the release of a particular
document, with regard to the circumstances.
Art. 3. Document is understood to mean any written or
pictorial matter or recording which may be read, listened to, or
otherwise comprehended only using technical aids. A document
is official if it is held by a public authority, and if it can be
deemed under Article 6 or 7 to have been received or drawn up
by such an authority.
A recording under paragraph one is deemed to be held by a
public authority if it is available to the authority using technical
aids which the authority itself employs for communication in
such form that it may be read, listened to, or otherwise
comprehended. A compilation of information taken from
material recorded for automatic data processing is however
regarded as being held by the authority only if the authority can
make it available using routine means.
A compilation of information taken from material recorded
for automatic data processing is not however regarded as being
held by the authority if the compilation contains personal
information and the authority is not authorised in law, or under
an ordinance, to make the compilation available. Personal
information is understood to mean any information which can
be referred back directly or indirectly to an individual.
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Art. 4. A letter or other communication which is directed in
person to an official at a public authority is deemed to be an