Exemptions from the openness principle in the public sector

Abstract

The article focuses on the peculiarities of the limitation of the access to the information held by public bodies. Special attention is paid to the concept of the mixed regimes in Russian law, dealing with the conflict between the openness and the confidentiality of the public sector information. The general rule for the disclosure keeps the confidentiality and provides for the anonymization or erasure of the protected parts of the data disclosed. There are also supplementary options: disclosing the data of limited access in public interests and the establishment of identification procedures for the claimants.