Section 15 - Decision Section 16 - Appeal Section 16a - Complaint on the information request processing procedure Section 17 - Cost recovery Section 18 - Annual report Section 19 Part Two Transitory and final provisions Section 20 Section 21 Section 22 - Effectiveness The Parliament has passed the following Act of the Czech Republic : Section 1 - Title omitted This Act transposes the relevant regulation of the European Communities 1) and regulates the rules for the provision of information, and it further regulates the terms and conditions of the right to free access to such information. Section 2 - Duty to provide information (1) The bodies obliged to provide information related to the scope of their powers under this Act shall be state authorities, territorial self-administration entities and their autohorities, and public institutions. (2) Such obligated bodies shall also include the bodies that have been authorized by the law to decide entrusted by the law with making decisions on the rights, legislatively protected interests or duties of natural persons and legal entities in the public administration sector. Such duty applies solely to the scope of their discretionary powers. (3) This Act shall not apply to -disclose subject-matter of industrial property 1a), and other information if a special law1b) regulates their provision, namely the processing of requests, including their elements and the manner of request submission, time limits, remedies and the manner of information provision . (4) The duty to provide information shall not apply to questions about opinions, future decisions and the creation of new information. Section 3 - Definitions