Annex
Glossary*
A
Archive - set of documents covering any time frame and format which are collected and
maintained irrespective of their character or medium, because of their value throughout the
period of activity of natural or legal persons, be they public or private, to serve as works of
reference, evidence, information or research sources.
D
Personal data: information relating to identified or identifiable natural persons, either manually
or electronically registered.
Document: All records held by public or private bodies defined in the present Law, regardless
of storage format: writings, audio,visual, electronic or any other format.
Classified Document: containing information or data of a military, political, economic, traderelated, scientific, technical or other nature, the disclosure of which could jeopardize prejudice,
undermine or disrupt security of the State, population or national economy
I
information - refers to knowledge, statistics, reports and various forms and modes of expression
- recorded or codified - including books, audio tapes, video recordings and type written
documents; includes all records held by a public or private body as defined in the present Act,
regardless of the format - document, tape, electronic recording or other legally acceptable
formats - of their public or private source and date of production.
Classified information - pertaining to content that may be qualified, depending on the
circumstances, as State Secret, Secret, Confidential or Restricted Public Interest Information –
information that is held by the entities referred to in Article 3 of this Law that may contribute
to exercising citizenship, maintaining or building social values, that promotes personal and
social welfare of citizens and that furthers the common good in accordance with restrictions
contained in this Law.
Personal information- information containing identifying information on a person and aspects
of his/her private and public life.
Processing of information- range of actions pertaining to the compilation, recording, storage
and proper use of information.
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