Unofficial translation
Amendments as of September 2014
a) will provide office space appropriately equipped for research, which will be made available to
information solicitors;
b) will appoint and train officers who will be in charge of providing official information;
c) will develop regulations on the rights and obligations of officers in the process of making available
documents and official information, in accordance with the present law;
d) will grant necessary assistance and help to information solicitors for the search and identification
of information;
e) will provide effective access to the registers of information providers, which will be kept in
accordance with the legislation on registers;
f) will make their meetings open to the public, in accordance with the enforced law.
(3) In order to facilitate free access to information, information providers will publish or will use any
other general and direct way of making available to the population the documents containing:
a) the description of the institution's structure and location;
b) the description of the institution's functions, activity areas and activity forms;
c) description of subdivisions and their functions, their working hours, including days and hours of
working with the public of officers in charge of providing information and official documents;
d) final decisions on the main issues examined.
(4) In accordance with the present law, information stipulated in para. (3) of the present article will
be made public without the application of the procedure of examination of requests about access to
information.
(5) In order to make the institution's activity transparent, facilitate access to information, create
conditions for timely search for and identification of documents and information, public
authorities/institutions will publish at least once every year guides with the list of ordinances,
resolutions, other official documents issued by the corresponding institution, as well as guides
describing the areas, in which it can provide information; the institutions will provide to the mass
media official data about their activity, including areas, in which they can provide information.
(6) Information providers will also take other steps to inform actively citizens and the mass media.
Article 12. Requesting access to official information
(1) Official information and documents may be obtained by the requesting party on the basis of a
written or verbal request.
(2) The written request will include:
a) sufficient and conclusive details for the identification of the requested information (or of parts
thereof);