The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection sent a letter to the addresses of hundreds of authorities warning them of their duty under Article 43 of the Law on Free Access to Public Information, which obliges all state authorities, territorial autonomy, local government bodies and organizations entrusted with the exercise of public authority to submit an annual report on the activities undertaken in order to implement this law, and specifies the content of the report.

The reports that state bodies are required to submit until January 20th next year represent the basis for preparation of the annual report on the state of free access to public information and protection of personal data that the Commissioner is required to submit to the National Assembly each March for the previous year and to forward it to the President of the Republic, the Government and the Ombudsman.

The Commissioner also warned authorities that the failure to submit the report is established as a punishable offense according to Article 48 of the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Importance.