6 KALDA v. ESTONIA JUDGMENT 20. The Public Information Act (Avaliku teabe seadus) stipulates the conditions and procedure for accessing information that is obtained or created in the course of carrying out public duties. A request for information (teabenõue) may be made orally or in writing (section 13) and the holder of such information, subject to certain exceptions, must release the information in the manner requested by the person making the request (section 17). 21. Section 31-1 of the Imprisonment Act (Vangistusseadus), which entered into force on 1 June 2008, provides that prisoners are prohibited from using the Internet, except on computers specially adapted for said purpose by a prison which has allowed such access (under the supervision of the prison authorities) to the official databases of legislation and the database of judicial decisions. This provision is still in force and has not been substantially amended. III. RELEVANT INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENTS A. Council of Europe documents 22. The Rules of the Committee of Ministers for the supervision of the execution of judgments and of the terms of friendly settlements, adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 10 May 2006 at the 964th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies, read as follows: Rule 6 – Information to the Committee of Ministers on the execution of the judgment “2. When supervising the execution of a judgment by the High Contracting Party concerned, pursuant to Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention, the Committee of Ministers shall examine: ... b. if required, and taking into account the discretion of the High Contracting Party concerned to choose the means necessary to comply with the judgment, whether: ... ii. general measures have been adopted, preventing new violations similar to that or those found or putting an end to continuing violations.” A footnote relating to the above provision mentions – as an example of general measures to be taken – publication of a judgment of the Court in the language of the respondent State and its dissemination to the authorities concerned. 23. On 28 May 2003, at the 840th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted a Declaration on freedom of communication on the Internet. The relevant part of the Declaration reads as follows:

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