Article 9- The provisions of Article 15 of the Law apply according to the following: 1- Each administration shall appoint at least one information officer from among third-category staff, where such grading exists. Administrations that contain multiple departments may appoint multiple information officers and substitutes thereof; 2- The information officer appointment decision must mention the officer’s job category, work station, phone number and e-mail address; 3- Upon appointment of the information officer, the administration shall publish the appointment decision in the Official Gazette and on its website, if any, and communicate the name and title of the officer to all its central and regional offices; 4- Public administrations shall communicate the name of the information officer and the appointment decision from the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers and the Office of the Minister of State for Administrative Reform. 5- The administrations that are subject to the provisions of the Law shall train their information officers on how to perform their duties under the Law. 6- The information officer shall have the right to access all information and documents in their administration, and may request any internal employee to provide them with said information and documents, provided that they follow the administrative hierarchy; 7- In the event that the information officer encounters any violation or limitation in collecting the requested information, they must inform their direct superior of said violation or limitation, in writing, to take the necessary action. Article 10In application of Articles 5 and 17 of the Law, in the event of confusion regarding the extent of accessibility of the requested document, and the document in question is neither owned nor issued by the administration from which it is requested, the latter shall refer the request, within the deadlines specified in the law, to the administration that actually owns or had issued the document, in order to decide on it. Article 11a. In application of Paragraph “a” of Article 18 of the Law, and in the event of material difficulty preventing the information requestor from accessing the documents where they are located, the administration shall enable said requestor to access the documents, if transportable, in another location of its choosing, and inform the requestor thereof. The transfer of documents to the new location shall be at the requestor’s expense after they had settled the fees specified in Paragraph “b” of this Article. b. The value and method of collection of the fees due per request of information shall be determined duly and by virtue of a decision issued by the Minister of Finance. Article 12- This decree shall come into effect immediately upon its publication in the Official Gazette. Baabda, on September 8, 2020