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Article 1 is amended as follows: paragraph 2 is amended as follows: point (a) is replaced by the following: ‘(a) documents the supply of which is an activity falling outside the scope of the public task of the public sector bodies concerned as defined by law or by other binding rules in the Member State, or in the absence of such rules, as defined in line with common administrative practice in the Member State in question, provided that the scope of the public tasks is transparent and subject to review;’; point (c) is replaced by the following: ‘(c) documents which are excluded from access by virtue of the access regimes in the Member States, including on the grounds of: the protection of national security (i.e. State security), defence, or public security, statistical confidentiality, commercial confidentiality (e.g. business, professional or company secrets);’; the following points are inserted: ‘(ca) documents access to which is restricted by virtue of the access regimes in the Member States, including cases whereby citizens or companies have to prove a particular interest to obtain access to documents; (cb) parts of documents containing only logos, crests and insignia; (cc) documents access to which is excluded or restricted by virtue of the access regimes on the grounds of protection of personal data, and parts of documents accessible by virtue of those regimes which contain personal data the re-use of which has been defined by law as being incompatible with the law concerning the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data;’; point (e) is replaced by the following: ‘(e) documents held by educational and research establishments, including organisations established for the transfer of research results, schools and universities, except university libraries and’; point (f) is replaced by the following: ‘(f) documents held by cultural establishments other than libraries, museums and archives.’; paragraph 3 is replaced by the following: ‘3. This Directive builds on and is without prejudice to access regimes in the Member States.’; in paragraph 4, the word ‘Community’ is replaced by the word ‘Union’.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-12 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.