Information from Reports on funds spent on business trips abroad are information of public importance within the meaning of the Art. 2 of Law on Free Access to Information of Public Importance («Official Gazette of the RS» No. 120/04), since they arise in relation with the work of government body and are contained within a certain document.

In principle, all information regarding the disposal of budgetary funds, including those on funds spent on business trips, is information of public importance and must be available to the public.

The quoted data, i.e. information on persons who travelled abroad, on place, duration and purpose of the trip, way of payment of charges, do not belong by themselves to the category of information the access to should be denied to. However, if along with those, the requested document contains also some other information which penetrate into privacy matters (e.g. bank accounts numbers, residence addresses and the like), which might be restricted pursuant to the provisions of the Art. 14 of the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Importance, it would be necessary to act according to the provision of the Art. 12 of that Law and withdraw such information at issuing a copy of the solicited document.

(The answer is contained in the letter sent to a government body, no. 06-00-29/2006-04 of 09.05.2006.)