ACCESS TO INFORMATION
In accordance with the Law on the right of access to information ('NN' 25/13 and 85/15), the right to access and reuse information owned by the University of Information Technology (VSITE) is exercised by all domestic and foreign natural and legal persons on the same way and under the same conditions.
The right to access information is based on the principles of public and free access, timeliness, completeness and accuracy of information, the principle of equality, the principle of disposing of information and includes the user's right to seek and obtain information, as well as VSITE's obligation to provide access to the requested information, i.e. to publishes information regardless of the set request when such publication results from an obligation determined by law or other regulation (Article 5, Paragraph 1, Point 5 of the Law on the Right to Access to Information).
"Information" is any data held by a public authority in the form of a document, record, file, register, regardless of the way it is presented (written, drawn, printed, recorded, magnetic, optical, electronic or any other record) that the body created alone or in cooperation with other bodies or obtained from another person, created within the scope of the work or in connection with the organization and work of the public authority).
The provisions of the Act do not apply to parties in judicial, administrative and other proceedings based on the law, in which the availability of information from those proceedings is determined by regulation (Article 1, paragraph 3 of the Act). In accordance with Article 18, Paragraph 5 of the Law on the Right to Access to Information, requesting access to the entire case file, explanations or instructions related to exercising a right or fulfilling an obligation, making an analysis or interpreting a regulation, is not considered a request for access to information, as nor the creation of new information.
REUSE OF INFORMATION
Reuse of information means the use of information of public authorities by natural or legal persons, for a commercial or non-commercial purpose different from the original purpose for which the information was created, and which is carried out within the framework of the law or other regulation of a specific scope or work that is usually considered public by work. The exchange of information between public authorities for the purpose of performing tasks within their scope does not constitute reuse. (Article 5, Paragraph 1, Point 6 of the Law on the Right to Access to Information).
HOW TO SUBMIT REQUESTS
The right to access and reuse information is exercised by submitting a request to the information officer in one of the following ways:
- by mail to the address: University of Information Technologies, n/o information officer, Klaićeva 7, 10000 Zagreb
- by e-mail to the address: pristupinfo@vsite.hr
- orally to phone number 01/3764 007, about which an official note is drawn up
To be valid, the request for access to information must necessarily contain:
- the name and headquarters of the public authority to which the request is submitted,
- data that are important for identifying the requested information,
- first and last name and full residential address of the natural person submitting the request, or the company, or the name of the legal entity and its registered office.
In order to be valid, a request for the reuse of information must necessarily contain:
- the name and headquarters of the public authority to which the request is submitted,
- data that are important for identifying the requested information,
- name, surname and address of the natural person who submits the request, or the company, i.e. the name of the legal entity and its registered office,
- information that the applicant wants to reuse,
- the form and manner in which he wishes to receive the content of the requested information,
- the purpose of using the information (commercial or non-commercial purpose).
CONTACT DETAILS OF THE INFORMATION OFFICER
Ana Mandic
Klaićeva 7, 10000 Zagreb
T: +385 1 3764 007
E-mail: pristuptinfo@vsite.hr
Forms
Request for access to information (.pdf, .docx)
Request for supplementing or correcting information (.pdf, .docx)
Request for reuse of information (.pdf, .docx)
Useful publications
Guide for users of the right to access information
Step by step: Exercise your right to information
Reports
Report on the implementation of the Law on the right to access information for 2015
Report on the implementation of the Law on the right to access information for 2016
Report on the implementation of the Law on the right to access information for 2017
Report on the implementation of the Law on the right to access information for 2018
Report on the implementation of the Law on the right to access information for 2019
Report on the implementation of the Law on the right to access information for 2020
Report on the implementation of the Law on the right to access information for 2021
