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(2)
(3)
in cases relating to a service or procurement contract or any other contract
based on tenders, a request for information supplementary to the tender and
any other accounts and documents prepared for the consideration of such
tenders enter the public domain when the contract has been awarded;
(4) the budget propositions of ministries and the agencies and institutions within
their fields of competence enter the public domain when the Ministry of
Finance has signed its first position on the budget proposition; thereafter, the
propositions sent to the Ministry of Finance from the other ministries and the
other propositions drafted for and included in the budget proposal enter the
public domain when the budget proposal has been submitted to Parliament;
(5) studies and statistics, as well as other comparable accounts which, forming a
coherent whole, contain information on the alternatives, reasons and impacts
pertaining to a decision or plan of general importance, even when they
otherwise concern unfinished business, enter the public domain when they
are fit for their purpose;
(6) minutes enter the public domain when they have been scrutinised and signed
or confirmed in a comparable manner, unless they have been kept for the
preparation of a matter or for the internal use of the authority;
(7) a court order or judgment enters the public domain from the moment it is
handed down or when it is made available to the parties;
(8) a decision, a statement, an instrument and a contractual commitment of an
authority, as well as the pertinent memoranda, minutes and other documents
not referred to in subparagraphs (1)—(3) or (5)—(7), enter the public domain
when the decision, statement, instrument or contract has been signed or
confirmed in a corresponding manner;
(9) a document not referred to in subparagraphs (1)—(3) or (5)—(7) enters the
public domain when the consideration of the pertinent matter has been
concluded by that authority.
Notwithstanding the provisions in paragraph (1), commission reports, discussion
papers and other similar documents intended for general dissemination enter the
public domain when they are in the possession of an authority for dissemination.
If an instrument or other document is to be issued, the authority shall, where
necessary, make its best effort to provide the parties to the matter with information
on the contents of the document before it enters the public domain.
Section 7 — When a document delivered to an authority enters the public domain
(1) Unless otherwise provided on document publicity or secrecy or another restriction
of access to information in this Act or another Act, a document delivered to an
authority for the consideration of a matter or otherwise in connection with a matter
within its jurisdiction or duties shall enter the public domain when the authority
has received it.
(2) Expert opinions and other such documents that are to be opened at a given time or
after the lapse of a given period shall enter the public domain, subject to the
restrictions referred to in paragraph (1), after the moment they have been opened.
Procurement, service and other tenders that have been delivered to an authority on
the basis of an invitation to tender and that result in a contract enter the public
domain, subject to the restrictions referred to in paragraph (1), when the contract is
awarded.
(3) Unless otherwise provided in the rules of secrecy or some other restrictions of
access, a document that can be deciphered only by means of a device enters the
public domain at the earliest when it is available to an authority or a person acting
on behalf of the authority.
Section 8 — General dissemination of a document
Statistics on the development of the national economy, initiatives and action plans
of economic policy and other similar documents the contents of which could
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