Ordinance Nº 2011-22 REPUBLIC OF NIGER of 23 February 2011 Fraternity-Work-Progress On the Charter on Access to Public and Administrative Documents THE PRESIDENT OF THE SUPREME COUNCIL FOR THE RESTORATION OF DEMOCRACY, HEAD OF STATE Mindful of the Constitution of 25 November, 2010; Mindful of Ordinance nº 2010-001 of 22 February 2010 on the organization of public authority during the period of transition and subsequent modifying texts; Based on the report of the Minister of the Public Service and Labour The Council of Ministers consulted; DECREES: Chapter one: General Provisions Article one: The present ordinance defines the general rules to access public information and administrative documents Article 2: Public information is all data or knowledge produced or received by public services in the conduct of their mandate either through research or experience in written, graphic, video, audio or audio-visual form. By this ordinance, public services are bodies with a public interest function or all public or private bodies assigned a similar mission. Article 3: Subject to the provisions of articles 13, 14 and 18 below, public bodies and private bodies performing public functions, in possession of documents or information of general interest, are required to make them available to the public. The conditions to disclose this information are determined by this decree.