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On Access to Public Information
(The Official Bulletin of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (BVR), 2011, No. 32, Article 314)
{As amended by Laws
No. 4652-VI of 13 April 2012, BVR, 2013, No. 21, Article 208
No. 4711-VI of 17 May 2012, BVR, 2013, No. 14, Article 89
No. 224-VII of 14 May 2013, BVR, 2014, No. 11, Article 132
No. 1700-VII of 14 October 2014, BVR, 2014, No. 49, Article 2056
No. 319-VIII of 9 April 2015, BVR, 2015, No. 25, Article 192
No. 199-IX of 17 October 2019, BVR, 2019, No. 51, Article 377
No. 720-IX of 17 June 2020, BVR, 2020, No. 47, Article 408
No. 808-IX of 17 July 2020
No. 890-IX of 15 September 2020, BVR, 2020, No. 51, Article 486
No. 912-IX of 17 September 2020}
This Law shall determine the procedure for exercising and ensuring the right of everyone of access to information in possession of public authorities and other administrators of public information determined by this Law and to information of public interest.
1. Public information shall mean information reflected and documented by any means and information media and which was received or created in the process of performance by public authorities of their powers provided for by the current legislation or which is in possession of public authorities, other administrators of public information determined by this Law.
2. Public information shall be open, except for the cases determined by the law.
Article 2. Purpose and scope of the Law
1. The purpose of this Law is to ensure transparency and openness of the public authorities and to create mechanisms for exercising everyone’s right of access to public information.
2. This Law shall not apply to relations on obtaining information by the public authorities during the performance of their functions and to relations in the field of citizens’ appeals regulated by a special law.
Article 3. Guarantees for ensuring the right of access to public information
1. The right of access to public information shall be guaranteed by:
1) duty of information administrators to provide and publish information, except for the cases provided for by the law;
2) determination by the information administrator of special structural subdivisions or officers organising the access to public information in their possession in accordance with the determined procedure;
3) maximum simplification of the procedure for submitting a request and obtaining information;
4) access to meetings of collegial public authorities, except for the cases provided for by legislation;
5) exercise of parliamentary, public and state control over the observance of rights of access to public information;
6) legal liability for violating the legislation on access to public information.
Article 4. Principles for ensuring access to public information
1. Access to public information under this Law shall be carried out based on the principles of:
1) transparency and openness of the activity of public authorities;
2) free obtaining, dissemination and any other use of information, which was provided or published under this Law, except for the restrictions set by the law;
{Clause 2, part 1 of Article 4 as revised by Law No. 319-VIII of 9 April 2015}
3) equal rights irrespective of race, political, religious or other beliefs, sex, ethnic and social origin, financial standing, place of residence, language or other features.
Section II
PROCEDURE FOR ACCESSING THE INFORMATION
Article 5. Ensuring access to public information
1. Access to information shall be ensured by:
1) systematic and prompt publication of information:
on official web-sites on the Internet;
on the unified state web-portal of open data;
{Clause 1, part 1of Article 5 has been supplemented with a new paragraph under Law No. 319-VIII of 9 April 2015}
2) providing information in response to information requests.
Article 6. Public restricted information
1. Restricted information shall be:
2. Access to information shall be restricted under the law subject to the combination of the following requirements:
1) solely in the interests of the national security, territorial integrity or public order in order to prevent the unrest or crimes, protect public health, protect the reputation or rights of other people, prevent the disclosure of information received confidentially, or maintain the authority and impartiality of justice;
{Clause 1, part 2 of Article 6 as amended by Law No. 720-IX of 17 June 2020}
2) disclosure of information can cause significant harm to such interests;
3) the harm from publication of the information outweighs public interest in obtaining the information.
3. Restricted information must be provided by the information administrator if he/she had lawfully published it earlier.
4. Restricted information must be provided by the information administrator should there be no lawful grounds to restrict access to such information, which have previously existed.
5. It shall not be allowed to restrict access to information about drawing up, considering and approving the budgets, cost estimates of spending units and plans of using the budget funds, as well as implementation thereof against signatures, budget programmes and expenditures (except for the secret expenses under Article 31 of the Budget Code of Ukraine), assuming by the spending units and recipients of budget funds of budgetary commitments or disposal of budget funds in any other way, formation, execution and procurement of goods, works and services using budget funds, including the defence procurement (except for the cases when certain information about procurement of goods, works and services is state secret under the Law of Ukraine “On State Secret”), owning, using or disposing of the state, municipal property, including to the copies of relevant documents, conditions of obtaining such funds or property, surname, given name, patronymic of individuals and names of legal entities who received such funds or property. Access to information about the state and results of inspections and internal investigations of the facts of violations committed in the fields of activity specified in this part shall not be subject to restriction. Access to the specified information shall be ensured by spending units according to the provision of Article 5 of this Law.
{Part 5 of Article 6 as amended by Laws No. 720-IX of 17 June 2020, No. 808-IX of 17 July 2020}
6. Information contained in declaration of a person authorised to perform functions of the state or local government, submitted under the Law of Ukraine “On Prevention of Corruption”, except for the cases determined by the specified Law, shall be deemed restricted.
{Part 6 of Article 6 as revised by Law No. 4711-VI of 17 May 2012; as amended by Law No. 224-VII of 14 May 2013; as revised by Laws No. 1700-VII of 14 October 2014, No. 912-IX of 17 September 2020}
7. Access shall be restricted to information and not to a document. If a document contains restricted information, the unrestricted information shall be made available for review.
Article 7. Confidential information
1. Confidential information shall mean information restricted by an individual or legal entity, except for the public authorities, and which may be disseminated at their choice and in accordance with the procedure determined by them. Information specified in parts 1 and 2, Article 13 of this Law may not be deemed confidential.
2. Information administrators determined by part 1, Article 13 of this Law, who possess confidential information, may disseminate it only with the consent of persons who had restricted access to such information; and in the absence of such consent – only in the interests of national security, economic welfare and human rights.
1. Secret information shall mean information restricted under part 2, Article 6 of this Law, and disclosure of which may harm a person, society, and the state. Information containing state, professional, banking secrets, secrets of pre-trial investigation and other secrets provided for by the law shall be deemed secret.
{Part 1 of Article 8 as amended by Laws No. 4652-VI of 13 April 2012, No. 912-IX of 17 September 2020}
2. Procedure for accessing the secret information shall be regulated by this Law and special laws.
Article 9. Official Information
1. According to part 2, Article 6 of this Law the following information may be deemed official:
1) information contained in documents of public authorities, which constitute the inter-agency official correspondence, internal memoranda, recommendations if they are related to the development of the activity direction of an institution or performing control and supervision functions by the government authorities, decision-making process and precede public discussion and/or adoption of decisions;
2) information collected in the process of operative investigation, counterintelligence activity, in the field of the country’s defence and is not classified as state secret.
2. Documents containing official information shall be assigned a stamp “For Official Use”. Access to such documents shall be provided under part 2, Article 6 of this Law.
3. Access to the list of information, which is official information and is compiled by the government authorities, local governments, other public authorities, including during the performance of delegated powers, may not be restricted.
Article 10. Access to information about a person
1. Each person shall have the right:
1) to know, during gathering of information, but prior to its use, what information about him/her and for what purpose is being gathered, in what way, by whom and with what purpose it is used, transferred or disseminated, except for the cases determined by the law;
2) to have access to information about him/her, which is being gathered and stored;
3) to demand correction of inaccurate, incomplete, outdated information about him/her, destruction of information about him/her, gathering, use or storing which violates the requirements of law;
4) to review, under a judgment, the information about other persons, if it is necessary for the exercise and protection of rights and legitimate interests;
5) to get compensation in case of disclosure of information about such a person in violation of the requirements set by the law.
2. The scope of information about a person, which is gathered, stored and used by information administrators, must be limited to the maximum extent possible and used solely with the purpose and in a way determined by the law.
3. Information administrators possessing the information about a person must:
1) provide it with no impediments and on a free-of-charge basis following the request of persons whom it concerns, except for the cases provided for by the law;
2) use it only with the purpose and in a way determined by the law;
3) take measures to prevent unauthorised access to it by other persons;
4) correct inaccurate and outdated information about a person on their own or at a request of persons whom it concerns.
4. Information about a person shall not be stored longer than it is necessary for reaching the goal for which such information was gathered.
5. Denying a person the access to information about him/her, withholding, illegal gathering, use, storing or dissemination of information may be appealed.
Article 10-1. Public information in the form of open data
1. Public information in the form of open data shall mean public information in a format, which allows its automated processing by electronic means, free and free-of-charge access thereto, as well as its further use.
Information administrators must provide public information in the form of open data at a request, publish and regularly update it on the unified state web-portal of open data and on their websites.
2. Public information in the form of open data shall be allowed for free further use and dissemination.
Any person may freely copy, publish, disseminate, use, including for commercial purposes, public information in the form of open data, in combination with other information or by including in their own product, with the mandatory reference to the source from which such information was obtained.
3. Public information containing personal data of an individual shall be published and provided at a request in the form of open data if at least one of the following conditions is met:
1) personal data was anonymised and protected under the Law of Ukraine “On Protection of Personal Data”;
2) individuals (data subjects) whose personal data is contained in the information in the form of open data have granted their consent to dissemination of such data under the Law of Ukraine “On Protection of Personal Data”;
3) provision or publication of such information is provided for by the law;
4) restriction of access to such information (classifying it as restricted information) is prohibited by the law.
4. The list of datasets to be made publicly available in the form of open data, requirements to format and structure of such datasets, frequency of their updating shall be determined by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. In this case, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall necessarily include in such list the information access to which in the form of open data is provided for by the law.
Creation and ensuring functioning of the unified state web-portal of open data shall be carried out by a central executive authority enforcing the state policy on e-governance.
{The Law has been supplemented with Article 10-1 under Law No. 319-VIII of 9 April 2015}
Article 11. Protection of person who discloses information
1. Officers and officials shall not be subject to legal liability, regardless of the breach of their duties, for disclosing information about offences or information concerning serious threat to the health or safety of citizens and environment, if a person was had positive intentions and had a justified conviction that the information was accurate and contained evidence of offence or concerned serious threat to the health or safety of citizens and environment.
Section III
PARTIES TO RELATIONS IN THE FIELD OF ACCESS TO PUBLIC INFORMATION
Article 12. Definitions and list of parties
1. Parties to relations in the field of access to public information shall be:
1) requesters of information shall mean individuals, legal entities, associations of citizens without the status of a legal entity, except for public authorities;
2) information administrators shall mean parties defined in Article 13 of this Law;
3) structural subdivision or responsible person for the access to public information of the information administrators.
{Clause 3, part 1 of Article 12 as amended by Law No. 319-VIII of 9 April 2015}
Article 13. Information administrators
1. For the purposes of this Law, the information administrators shall be:
1) public authorities shall mean government authorities, other state bodies, local governments, authorities of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, other entities performing the public management functions under the legislation and whose decisions are binding;
2) legal entities funded from the state, local budgets, budget of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea – regarding the information about the use of budget funds;
3) persons, if they perform delegated powers of public authorities under the law or agreement, including the provision of educational, recreational, social, or any other state services – regarding the information related to performance of their duties;
4) business entities, which dominate on the market or have been assigned special or exclusive rights, or which natural monopolies – regarding the information about conditions of supplying goods, services, and their prices.
2. Business entities possessing the following types of information shall be equated to the information administrators, which must make publicly available and provide, at a request, information specified in this Article in accordance with the procedure provided for by this Law:
1) information about the state of environment;
2) information about the quality of food products and household goods;
3) information about accidents, catastrophes, natural hazards and other emergencies, which have taken or may take place and threaten the health and safety of citizens;
4) other information being of public interest (publicly necessary information).
3. The provisions of this Law shall apply to information administrators determined in clauses 2, 3 and 4, parts 1 and 2 of this Article only with regard to making it publicly available and provision of relevant information at requests.
4. All information administrators, regardless of the regulatory act under which they act, must be guided by this Law when resolving the issues concerning access to information.
Article 14. Duties of information administrators
1. Information administrators must:
1) publish information provided for by this and other laws;
{Clause 1, part 1 of Article 14 as amended by Law No. 319-VIII of 9 April 2015}
2) systematically keep record of documents which are in their possession;
3) keep records of information requests;
4) allocate special places for requesters to work with documents or their copies, as well as allow requesters to make extracts from them, photograph, copy, scan them, record on any information media, etc.;
5) have special structural subdivisions or appoint responsible persons for ensuring access of requesters to information and making information publicly available;
{Clause 5, part 1 of Article 14 as amended by Law No. 319-VIII of 9 April 2015}
6) provide and make publicly available the true, accurate and complete information and, if needed, verify the correctness and objectiveness of information provided and update the information made publicly available.
{Clause 6, part 1 of Article 14 as revised by Law No. 319-VIII of 9 April 2015}
Article 15. Making the information publicly available by administrators
1. Information administrators must make publicly available:
1) information about organisational structure, mission, functions, powers, main tasks, areas of activity and financial resources (structure and amount of budget funds, procedures and mechanism of spending, etc.), as well as information specified in part 5, Article 6 of this Law;
{Clause 1, part 1 of Article 15as amended by Law No. 808-IX of 17 July 2020}
2) regulatory acts, acts related to certain individuals (except for internal organisational acts) adopted by the administrator, draft decisions to be discussed, information about the regulatory principles of activity;
3) list and conditions for receiving services provided by such authorities, forms and templates of documents, rules for filling them out;
4) how to prepare and submit an information request, contest decisions of information administrators, their actions or inaction;
5) information about the recording system, types of information stored by the administrator;
5-1) list of datasets made publicly available in the form of open data;
{Part 1of Article 15 has been supplemented with clause 5-1 under Law No. 319-VIII of 9 April 2015}
6) information about mechanisms or procedures using which the public can represent its interests or otherwise influence the exercise of powers by the information administrator;
7) schedule and agenda of their open meetings;
8) location of places where requesters can get necessary forms and letterheads of the institution;
9) general rules of work of the institution, internal code of conduct;
10) reports, including reports on satisfying the information requests;
11) information about activity of public authorities, namely about:
their location, postal address, contact details, website and e-mail addresses;
surname, given name, patronymic, office phone numbers, e-mail addresses of a head of the authority and his/her deputies, heads of structural and regional subdivisions, main functions of structural and regional subdivisions, except for the cases when such information is classified as restricted information;
work schedule and visiting hours;
vacancies, procedure and conditions of competitive selection for filling the vacancies;
list and conditions for providing the services, forms and templates of documents required for providing services, rules for filling them out;
list and office phone numbers of enterprises, institutions and organisations within their sphere of management, their managers, except for enterprises, institutions and organisations that have been established with the purpose of operative investigation, counterintelligence activity;
procedure for drawing up and submitting an information request, appealing against decisions of public authorities, their actions or inaction;
recording system, types of information in the possession of the public authority;
12) other information about activity of the public authorities, the procedure for mandatory making publicly available of which is determined by the law.
2. Information provided for by part 1 of this Article is to be made publicly available without delay but no later than five business days after the date of approval of the document. If the information administrator has an official website, such information shall be made publicly available on the website with indication of the date when the document was made publicly available and the date when information was updated.
3. Draft regulatory acts, draft decisions of the local governments developed by relevant administrators shall be made publicly available by them at least 20 business days prior to the date of their consideration with the purpose of adoption.
{Paragraph 1, part 3 of Article 15 as amended by Law No. 890-IX of 15 September 2020}
Requirements of this part on the period of making the information publicly available shall not apply to raft decisions of local governments aiming at providing administrative services, unless it leads to violation of the period of providing a relevant administrative service determined by the law.
{Part 3 of Article 15 has been supplemented with a new paragraph under Law No. 199-IX of 17 October 2019}
4. Any information about the facts threatening life, health and/or property of persons, as well as measures that have been taken in their respect, must be made publicly available without delay.
Article 16. Responsible persons for issues of access to public information
1. Information administrator shall be responsible for determining the tasks and ensuring activity of a structural subdivision or responsible person for issues of access to public information of the information administrator, who shall be responsible for processing, systematisation, analysis and control concerning the satisfaction of an information request, providing consultation during execution of the request, as well as for making the information provided for by this Law publicly available.
2. The request registered in accordance with the procedure determined by the information administrator shall be processed by responsible persons for issues of access to public information.
{Article 16 as revised by Law No. 319-VIII of 9 April 2015}
Article 17. Control over ensuring of access to public information
1. Parliamentary control over observance of human right of access to information shall be carried out by the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, temporary investigation commissions of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Members of the Ukrainian Parliament.
2. Public control over ensuring access to public information by information administrators shall be carried out by councillors of local councils, non-governmental organisations, public councils, individual citizens through public hearings, public expertise, etc.
3. State control over ensuring access to information by information administrators shall be carried out under the law.
Article 18. Registration of documents of the information administrator
1. To ensure preservation and access to public information, documents in possession of the public authorities must be registered in the recording system, which must contain:
2) date when the document was created;
3) date when the document was received;
4) source of information (author, relevant subdivision);
5) lawful ground for classifying information as restricted;
6) period of restricting the access to information, if it is classified as restricted information;
9) type, medium (text document, electronic document, tapes, video recordings, audio recordings, etc.);
{Clause 9, part 1 of Article 18 as amended by Law No. 319-VIII of 9 April 2015}
10) type (regulatory acts, agreements, decisions, protocols, reports, press releases);
11) draft decisions (internal memoranda, petitions, statements, submissions, proposals, letters, etc.);
12) form and place of the document’s storage, etc.
2. Access to the recording system, which contains information about documents that are in possession of the public authority, shall be ensured by:
1) making such information publicly available on official websites of the public authorities or, if there is no web-site, – by any other acceptable means;
2) providing access to the system in response to requests.
3. System of recording public information may not be classified as restricted information.
4. Information administrators shall bear responsibility for ensuring access to the recording system under the law.
Section IV
EXERCISING THE RIGHT OF ACCESS TO INFORMATION THROUGH AN INFORMATION REQUEST
Article 19. Executing information requests
1. Information request shall mean a request of a person to the information administrator to provide public information in its possession.
2. A requester shall have the right to submit an information request to the information administrator regardless of whether such information concerns him/her personally or not and without having to explain the reasons for submitting the request.
3. An information request may be individual or collective. Requests may be submitted orally, in writing or in other form (by mail, fax, phone, e-mail) at the choice of a requester.
4. A written request may be submitted in any form.
5. An information request must contain:
1) name of a requester, postal or e-mail address, as well as contact details if available;
2) general description of information or type, name, number or content of the requested document, if the requester is aware thereof;
3) signature and date if the request is submitted in writing.
6. To simplify the procedure for executing the written information requests, a person may submit request by filling out relevant forms of information requests which can be obtained from the information administrator and on the official website of the respective administrator. Such forms shall contain a brief instruction on how the information request is to be submitted and information obtained.
7. If due valid reasons (disability, limited physical ability, etc.) a person cannot submit a written request, it shall be executed by a responsible person for the issues of access to public information indicating his/her name, contact phone number, and a copy must be provided to the requester.
{Part 7 of Article 19 as amended by Law No. 319-VIII of 9 April 2015}
Article 20. Period of considering information requests
1. Information administrator must provide a response to the information request not later than five business days after the date of receiving the request.
2. If information request concerns information necessary for protecting life or freedom of an individual, state of environment, quality of food products and household goods, accidents, catastrophes, natural hazards and other emergencies, which have taken or may take place, the response must be provided no later than 48 hours after the date of receiving the request.
3. Request for an urgent consideration of the information request must be substantiated.
4. If the request concerns providing a large scope of information or requires search within a large scope of data, the information administrator may extend the period for considering the request to 20 business days with substantiation of such extension. The information administrator shall notify the requester of the extension in writing no later than five business days after the date of receiving the request.
Article 21. Payment for providing the information
1. Information in response to a request shall be provided on a free-of-charge basis.
2. If satisfaction of the information request requires making photocopies of documents of more than 10 pages, the requester must compensate for the actual expenses on copying and printing.
3. The amount of actual expenses shall be determined by the relevant information administrator within the limits determined by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. If the information administrator failed to determine the amount of payment for copying and printing, the information shall be provided on a free-of-charge basis.
4. Requester’s personal information and information of public interest shall be provided without payment for copying and printing.
Article 22. Denying and postponing the satisfaction of information request
1. Information administrator shall have the right to deny satisfaction of the request in the following cases:
1) the information administrator does not possess and must not, according to his/her competence provided for by the legislation, possess the information requested;
2) the requested information is classified as restricted information under part 2, Article 6 of this Law;
3) a person who requested information failed to pay actual expenses on copying and printing provided for by Article 21 of this Law;
4) requirements to the information request provided for by part 5, Article 19 of this Law were not complied with.
2. Response of the information administrator that information can be obtained by the requester from publicly available sources or response not on the merits of the request shall be deemed an unlawful denial to provide information.
3. The information administrator, which does not possess the requested information yet which by its status or nature of its activity is aware or must be aware of who possesses it, must refer such a request to an appropriate administrator while simultaneously notifying the requester thereof. In this case, the period for considering the request shall commence on the date of receiving the request by an appropriate administrator.
4. Denial to satisfy an information request shall include:
1) surname, given name and patronymic and position of a person responsible for consideration of the request by the information administrator;
3) grounded reason for the denial;
4) procedure to appealing against the denial;
5. Denial to satisfy an information request shall be provided in writing.
6. It shall be allowed to postpone satisfaction of the information request if the requested information cannot be provided for review within the periods provided for by this Law due to force majeure. The requester shall be notified of the decision on postponement in writing with explanation of how to appeal against the adopted decision.
7. The decision to postpone satisfaction of the information request shall indicate the following:
1) surname, given name and patronymic and position of a person responsible for consideration of the request by the information administrator;
2) date of sending or delivery of the postponement notice;
3) reasons due to which it is impossible to satisfy the information request within the period provided for by this Law;
4) period within which the request will be satisfied;
Section V
APPEALING AGAINST DECISIONS, ACTIONS OR INACTION OF INFORMATION ADMINISTRATORS
Article 23. Right to appeal against decisions, actions or inaction of information administrators
1. Decisions, actions or inaction of information administrators may be appealed to the head of the administrator, supreme body or court.
2. The requester shall have the right to appeal against:
1) denial to satisfy the information request;
2) postponement in satisfaction of the information request;
3) failure to provide a response to the information request;
4) provision of false or incomplete information;
5) late provision of information;
6) failure of the administrator to comply with the duty to make the information publicly available under Article 15 of this Law;
7) other decisions, actions or inaction of information administrators violating legitimate rights and interests of the requester.
3. Decisions, actions or inaction of information administrators shall be appealed to court under the Code of Administrative Proceedings of Ukraine.
Article 24. Liability for violating the legislation on access to public information
1. Liability for violating the legislation on access to public information shall be borne by persons guilty of committing the following violations:
1) failure to provide a response to a request;
2) failure to provide the requested information;
3) unreasoned denial to satisfy the information request;
4) failure to make the information publicly available under Article 15 of this Law;
5) provision or making publicly available false, inaccurate or incomplete information;
3) late provision of information;
7) unreasoned classification of information as restricted information;
8) failure to register documents;
9) wilful withholding or destruction of information or documents.
2. Persons who believe that their rights and legitimate interests have been violated by information administrators shall have the right to seek compensation of pecuniary and non-pecuniary damages in accordance with procedure determined by the law.
1. This Law shall enter into force three months after its publication.
2. Other legislative acts of Ukraine shall apply to the extent not contradicting this Law until the legislation of Ukraine is brought in line with this Law.
3. To amend the following legislative acts of Ukraine:
1) in the Code on Administrative Offences of Ukraine (The Official Bulletin of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR, 1984, Annex to No. 51, Article 1122):
in Article 212-3:
part 1 after words “On Information” shall be supplemented with words “On Access to Public Information”;
the note shall be amended to read as follows:
“Note. Persons determined in the note to Article 212-26 to this Code shall be brought to liability for the acts provided for by this Article under Article 212-26”;
part 1 of Article 212-26 after words “On Information” shall be supplemented with words “On Access to Public Information”;
2) in the title and paragraph 1, part 1 of Article of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (The Official Bulletin of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, 2001, No. 25—26, Article 131), words “owned by the state” shall be replaced with words “possessed by the state”;
3) part 10, Article 9 of the Law of Ukraine “On Operative Investigation Activity” (The Official Bulletin of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, 1992, No. 22, Article 303; 2000, No. 10, Article 79) shall be supplemented with two sentences with the following content: “It shall be prohibited to make publicly available or provide the gathered information, as well as information about carrying out or not carrying out operative investigation in respect of a certain person until a decision is adopted following the results of such activity. The issue of making publicly available or provision of such information after the decision is adopted shall be regulated by the law”;
4) Article 9 of the Law of Ukraine “On Counterintelligence Activity” (The Official Bulletin of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, 2003, No. 12, Article 89) shall be supplemented with the following sentence: “It shall be prohibited to make publicly available or provide (disclose) the gathered information, as well as information about carrying out or not carrying out counterintelligence activity in respect of a certain person until a decision is adopted following the results of such activity or measures”;
5) Article 13 of the Law of Ukraine “On Copyright and Related Rights” (The Official Bulletin of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, 2001, No. 43, Article 214) shall be supplemented with part 5 with the following content:
“5. The specified provisions shall not apply to cases of making publicly available or providing information under the Law of Ukraine “On Access to Public Information”.
4. Within two months after the enactment of this Law, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall:
approve the maximum limits of expenses on copying or printing provided for by Article 21 of this Law;
submit for consideration to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine draft laws on bringing the laws of Ukraine in line with this Law;
bring its regulatory acts in line with this Law;
ensure that central executive authorities bring their regulatory acts in line with this Law.
