The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the Law "On Access to the Public Information"

13 January 2011, 11:55

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Under the Law, "public information is the information displayed and fixed in the documents by any means and on any data carriers, received or created by the state authority subjects while fulfilling their duties as required by the Law or the information in the ownership of the state authority subjects, and other public information administrators defined by this Law."

 

Pursuant to the Law, "public information van be distributed in public, unless otherwise is provided by the legislation of Ukraine."

 

The Law guarantees the right of access to the public information. Pursuant to the document, "the right to access the public information is supported by the obligation of the information administrators to give and promulgate information as public, unless otherwise is provided by the legislation of Ukraine."

 

The Law establishes the order of access to the public information provided by systematic and concurrent promulgation of information in official printed media; on the official web-sites on the Internet; on the information stalls; by any other means.

 

The draft is registered under Reg. No.2763.