The RA Law on Freedom of Information provides that the nformation holder, with the exception of cases defined in the 3rd clause of Article 8, refuses to provide information if:
1. contains state, official, bank or trade secret;
2. infringes the privacy of a person and his family, including the privacy of correspondence, telephone conversations, post, telegraph and other transmissions;
3. contains pre-investigation data not subject to publicity;
4. discloses data that require accessibility limitation, conditioned by professional activity (medical, notary, attorney secrets).
5. infringes copy right and associated rights.
Pursuant to clause 2 of the mentioned article if a part of the information required contains data, the disclosure of which is subject to denial, than information is provided concerning the other part.
Pursuant to clause 3 of the same article information request cannot be declined, if:
1. it concerns urgent cases threatening public security and health, as well as natural disasters (including officially forecasted ones) and their aftermaths;
2. it presents the overall economic situation of the Republic of Armenia, as well as the real situation in the spheres of nature and environment protection, health, education, agriculture, trade and culture;
3. if the decline of the information request will have a negative influence on the implementation of state programs of the Republic of Armenia directed to socio-economic, scientific, spiritual and cultural development.
