Chapter II: The Right of Access to Public Information and Administrative Documents
Article 4: Access to public information is free, subject only to exceptions and deadlines
provided by the law.
Public information is accessible as a matter of right to anyone who makes a request in
accordance with the present ordinance.
Article 5: Access to public information is guaranteed and equal for all users of public services
without discrimination.
Article 6: Everyone has a right to know any information held about him in administrative
documents or those whose conclusions could be invoked against him
Article 7: Access to public documents is exercised within the technical capacity of the
administration and the modalities laid down in article 18 below.
Article 8: The officials mentioned in article 16 below are required to make available and to
disclose administrative documents and information in their possession to all persons who request
it within the framework of this ordinance.
Article 9: The right of access applies only to completed documents. It does not apply to
preparatory documents for administrative decisions that are still being elaborated. It no longer
operates on documents that are already subject to disclosure.
The transfer of accessible administrative documents to the public archives does not obstruct the
right to access them at anytime.
Article 10: Where a request is made to a public body or private entity performing public
functions and the entity is not in possession of this information, the entity can direct the
requestor to the organization that possesses this information.
Article 11: A public body is not obliged to respond to requests made abusively as multiple or
repetitious requests.
Chapter III: Accessible and non-accessible information and documents
Article 12: The following information or administrative documents are accessible by this
ordinance: all documents, reports, studies, guidance or policy documents, reviews, minutes,
statistics, directives, instructions, circulars, service notes and ministerial responses that consist if
an interpretation of the law or a description of administrative procedures, opinions, forecasts and
decisions