Public interest information. Denial of communication. Justification Judgment of value and statistical data. Interest in filing the request for communication

DREPT ADMINISTRATIV ŞI FISCAL

Abstract

The claimant requested the defendant authority to indicate the steps taken in relation to each individual case. The claimant did not request information from the defendant which represents a judgment of the authority, as a reply such as that „all legal measures have been taken” is a value judgment and not information of public interest. Whether or not all the legal measures were taken in relation to the respective cases represents a value 
judgment, whereas the information of public interest consists in the measures undertaken, which was not communicated by the appellant – defendant. 
The transmission of a list of the files and the measures initiated therein do not represent statistical data but unprocessed data, which are specific to the notion of information of public interest, as defined by Article 2 letter b of Law no. 544/2001.