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prescribed in the present Law and in other laws (hereinafter referred to as “the
requester”); and
“document” shall refer to any record of information, regardless of its physical
form or features, a written or a printed text, maps, schemes, photographs,
pictures, drawings, sketches, working materials, as well as audio, voice,
magnetic or electronic records, optical or video records in any form
whatsoever, as well as mobile equipment for automatic data processing with
integrated or transferable memory to store data in digital form.
3. Free access to information
Article 4
(1) Free access to information shall be enjoyed by all legal and natural persons.
(2) Free access to information shall also be enjoyed by foreign legal and natural
persons in accordance with the present Law and other laws.
4. Publishing a list
Article 5
The Commission for Protection of the Right to Free Access to Information of Public
Character shall, once a year (in the media, a bulletin, on a website), publish a list of
holders of information of public character, and the responsible person within the
information holder.
5. Exceptions to the free access to information
Article 6
(1) Information holders may reject a request to access information in accordance with
the law, should the information in question relate to the following:
1. information that, under the law, represents classified information of
appropriate degree of secrecy;
2. personal datum the disclosure of which would mean violation of personal data
protection;
3. information on archive working having been identified as confidential;
4. information the disclosure of which would mean violation of the
confidentiality of the tax procedure;
5. information obtained or compiled within an investigation, a criminal or a
misdemeanor procedure, for the purpose of conducting an administrative or a
civil procedure, the disclosure of which would have harmful consequences for
the course of the procedure itself;
6. information relating to commercial and other economic interests, including the
interests of monetary and fiscal policies, the disclosure of which may have
harmful consequences for the exercising of a particular function;
7. information contained in a document undergoing a procedure of compiling and
still being subject of harmonization with an information holder, the disclosure
of which would cause misunderstanding of the contents of the document in
question;