CHAPTER VI
IMPLEMENTATION
Article 18
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Citizens, as established under the Constitution of the Republic of Kosovo, shall exercise
their rights as set out in the present Law, in their respective language.
Article 19
Informing the public on their rights of access to documents
1. The public institutions shall inform the public for their rights of access to official
documents and the manner how they can exercise this right. They shall also take the
following requisite measures to:
1.1. fulfill their duties and obligations relating to implementation of this
right;
1.2. provide information on issues or activities relating to their responsibilities;
1.3. manage their documents, efficiently, so that they are easily accessible;
1.4. inform public about the rights arised by this Law; and
1.5. determine the unit or responsible officer for communication with citizens,
who shall be responsible for receiving and conducting an initial review of
applications for access to documents.
Article 20
Transparence, reporting and information of public institutions
1. In order to provide entire transparence, the public institutions in their work and
regarding the access to public documents shall be obliged to be responsible, efficient and
shall report and inform the public opinion in a regular periodical and annual way.
2. Public institutions, at least once a year, must do the information from paragraph 1 of
this Article, even through publishing comprehensive informators, reports and other
constitutional appropriate forms of entire and transparent information of the citizens.
3. Each public institution shall publish an annual report for the preceding year, including
the number of cases in which the public authority has granted access, as the cases in
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