The Submission of an Application to Access Information

The right to access and re-use of information is regulated and exercised in accordance to the Act on the Right of Access to Information (Official Gazette 25/13, 85/15). The Act prescribes the principles of the right of access to information and re-use of information, restrictions of the right of access to information and re-use of information, procedure of achieving and protecting the right of access the information and re-use of information.

The objective of this Act is to enable and ensure the exercise of the right of access to information, and re-use of information to natural persons and legal entities, through openness and the publicity of the activity of public authority bodies.

The right to access and re-use of information encompasses the right of the beneficiaries to seek and acquire information, and the obligation of the public authority bodies to ensure access to requested information, i.e. to disclose information regardless of the request, when so required by the law or other regulations.

The right to access and re-use of information is exercised via the submission of a request to the Information officer in the following possible ways:

by phone: +385/023/250 486
by fax: +385/023/250 548
by e-mail to the Information officer: mmustac@icua.hr
Request for access to information form / Request for supplementation or correction of information form / Request for re-use of information form
to the address: International Centre for Underwater Archaeology in Zadar, Božidara Petranovića 1, 23000 Zadar, Croatia on the form Request for access to information / Request for supplementation or correction of information / Request for re-use of information
in person to the International Centre for Underwater Archaeology in Zadar, Božidara Petranovića 1, 23000 Zadar, Croatia, from Monday to Friday from 8.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.

Attached documents

Decision on the appointment of an Information officer.pdf Form - 2 Request for access to information.doc Form - 3 Request for supplementation or correction of information.doc Form - 4 Request for re-use of information.doc

The right of access to information are regulated with

General regulations

Constitution of the Republic of Croatia (Official Gazette 56/90, 135/97, 08/98, 113/00, 124/00, 28/01, 41/01, 55/01, 76/10, 85/10 , 05/14),
Act on the Right of Access to Information (Official Gazette 25/13, 85/15),
Archival Material and Archives Act (Official Gazette 105/97, 64/00, 65/09, 144/12),
Copyright and Related Rights Act (Official Gazette 167/03, 79/07, 80/11, 125/11, 141/13, 127/14),
Media Act (Official Gazette 59/04, 84/11, 81/13),
General Administrative Procedure Act (Official Gazette 47/09),
Act on the State Administration System in relations between the administration and citizens (Official Gazette 150/11, 12/13, 93/16, 104/16),
Data Confidentiality Act (Official Gazette 79/07, 86/12),
Administrative Disputes Act (Official Gazette 20/10, 143/12, 152/14, 94/16, 29/17),
Personal Data Protection Act (Official Gazette 103/03, 118/06, 41/08, 130/11, 106/12),
Data Confidentiality Protection Act (Official Gazette 108/96),
General Tax Act (Official Gazette 115/16),
Ordinance on the Content and Manner of Keeping the Record of Exclusive Rights to the re-use Information (Official Gazette 20/16),
Ordinance on the Central Catalog of Official Documents of the Republic of Croatia (Official Gazette 124/15),
Ordinance on the Structure, Content and Manner of Keeping of an Official Register on the Exercise of the Right to Access and re-use of Information (Official Gazette 83/14),
Criteria for determining the amount of compensation of actual material costs and the costs of delivery of information (Official Gazette 12/14, 15/14).

EU regulations

Directive 2003/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 November 2003 on the re-use of public sector information,
Directive 2013/37/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 amending Directive 2003/98/EC on the re-use of public sector information (Text with EEA relevance),
Consolidated Directive 2003/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 November 2003 on the re-use of public sector information,
Guidelines on recommended standard licences, datasets and charging for the re-use of documents 2014/C 240/01

The European Council

European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (OG 18/97, 6/99, 14/02, 13/03, 09/05, 1/06, 2/10)

Internal acts

Decision on the appointment of an Information officer,
Request for access to information,
Request for supplementation or correction of information,
Request for re-use of information.

Reports