The law is also supposed to specify the legal status of producers and bearers of official information, to determine their duties concerning the keeping of official information and access to it.
"As regards official information, the law clauses should follow the presumption of information openness, specifying that access to any information is free, except that with restricted access under federal laws,:" says the concept.
It is also expected to make federal bodies of state authority and bodies of local self-government bound to provide access to information about their activities.
Besides, the concept mentions the necessity of adopting a federal law on electronic document turnover. " The further development of electronic document turnover is required for better regulating matters connected with its introduction into federal bodies of state authority, establishing and handling state information systems, making them compatible and spreading uniform requirements of information security," says the concept.
With the implementation of the concept, the present legislation is also to be perfected, namely the federal law "On information, information technologies and protection of informaiton" ought to be re-edited.
"It is necessary to lay down with comments the provisions of the Civil Code on information as an individual facility of civic rights as well as to regulate relations on information and information rights (such as the right to access to information and to restricted access, to free dissemination of information, to protection from untruthful and unclaimed information) as a separate sphere of regulatory impact," says the concept.
There are plans to change the federal law "On electronic digital signature" and to harminise it with international legal acts in the field of electronic signature usage.
Besides, amendments are to be introduced to legislative acts on the purchase of commodities (jobs, services) for government needs.
"Federal bodies of government should be authoritised to use modern technological means when making purchases for state needs, conditions should be determined for distributing notices on holding competitions, providing electronic type of competition documents and for using information technologies for selecting participants in the competition," notes the document.
