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Summary: You Must Pay to Access Information Unless You Work for the Government Request sent to Ministry of Justice Outcome of request Information refused. Time taken to respond 23 working days (The deadline is 15 working days) Reason for refusal Must pay for access. Another law overrides FOI law.   On 23 July 2013 an initial request for access to the full company register database was sent by Access Info and our Latvian partner Ilze Jaunalske to the Ministry of Justice. The Latvian access to information law stipulates that the administration must answer requests within 15 working days. On 23

Summary: No Freedom of Information Law and You Must Pay For Access Request sent to Companies House Gibraltar (Click here) Outcome of request Information refused. Time taken to respond 25 working days from original request (No FOI law in Gibraltar) Reason for refusal Must pay for access. No access to information law.   An initial request was sent on 28 August 2013 to Companies House Gibraltar, asking them to send Access Info Europe a copy of all the information contained in their company register database. After 3 weeks, no response had been received, so Access Info sent a reminder email

Summary: Access to the register is improved, but names of shareholders are not accessible. Request sent to Ministry of Justice Ministry of Industry and Business Outcome of request Ministry of Justice: Partial Information, following a series of appealsMinistry of Industry and Business: Information refused. This decision is currently under appeal before the Czech Administrative Court. Time taken to respond Ministry of Justice: 13 working days for initial response (Deadline is 15 working days) but 9 months to obtain partial access to the registerMinistry of Industry and Business: 9 working days Reason for refusal Ministry of Justice: Need to pay private

Summary: Institutions Can Refuse Free Access to Information to Protect Their Commercial Interests Request sent to Central Register of Macedonia (Click here) Outcome of request Information refused. Time taken to respond 5 working days to receive a postal response. However, they phoned us same day we sent the request. (Deadline is 30 calendar days) Reason for refusal Must pay to access the information. Protection of commercial interests.   On 22 July 2013 an initial request was sent by our partner in Macedonia, Zaklina Zafirova, to the Central Register, asking them for a copy of the full Macedonian company database. Legally,

Summary: The Information Act Is Subordinate to the Company Register Laws Request sent to Ministry of Justice - Commercial Register Division (Click here) Outcome of request Information refused. Time taken to respond 35 days (deadline is 14 calendar days) Reason for refusal Only need to answer requests for individual records. Another law overrides FOI law. Must pay for access.   The initial request for access to the full company register was sent to the Office of Justice, Commercial and Register Division on 28 August 2013. Legally, Lichtenstein has 14 calendar days to answer an access to information request. The following

Summary: Oral Refusal Followed By Administrative Silence Request sent to Agency for Business Registration (Click here) Outcome of request Administrative Silence Time taken to respond N/A (Deadline is of 15 working days) Reason for refusal N/A   On 5 August 2013, a request for access to the full company register database was sent to the Agency for Business Registration by Access Info's partner BIRN. Under the access to information legislation, public authorities in Kosovo are legally bound to answer requests within 15 working days. The first response provided by the Agency for Business Registration was given orally and they referred

Summary: You Must Pay for Access and You Are Prohibited From Re-Using the Data Request sent to The Chamber of Commerce - Italian Business Register (Click here) Outcome of request Information refused. Time taken to respond 14 days (deadline is 30 calendar days) Reasons for refusal Must pay for access. Personal privacy. Restricted re-use of data.   On 31 October 2013, an initial request was sent to the Italian Business Register, seeking a full copy of the company register database. Under the Italian access to information law, the Chamber of Commerce has a one-month deadline for responding to requests. On

Summary: You Cannot Request Bulk Access, Only Access to Specific Records Request sent to Hungarian Ministry of Justice Outcome of request Information Refused. Time taken to respond 2 working days (Deadline of 15 working days) Reason for refusal Only need to answer requests for individual records. Another law overrides FOI law.   On 22 July 2013 the request was sent by Access Info's partners in Hungary, Tamas Bodoky and Ildi Kovács, to the Ministry of Public Administration and Justice (a copy of the request and the full correspondence with the Ministry can be found on the Hungarian request platform Atlatszo (http://kimittud.atlatszo.hu/request/ceginformacios-adatbazis).

Summary: You Must Pay to Access the Company Register Request sent to Finnish Trade Register (Click here) Outcome of request Information refused Time taken to respond 2 working days (Deadline is 7 days) Reason for refusal Must pay for access.   A request was sent to the Finnish Trade Register on 4 November 2013. Only two days later, on 6 November, we were told that if we wanted to order documents, we would need to fill in a form on the Trade Register's website and that these documents would then be delivered via post or email after paying the prescribed

Summary: A Case of Administrative Silence - No Response to Our Request Request sent to Registre du Commerce et des Societes (Click here) Outcome of request Administrative silence. Time taken to respond N/A (Deadline is 30 days) Reason for refusal No response received.   On 31 October 2013 Access Info tried to send a request to the Registre du Commerce et des Societes via email, but the “send an email” function was not working. We also tried to call the offices in Paris but they did not answer the phone. We therefore sent the request was by post on 12