Access to state secrets: the place in the system of information access modes and the development of national legislation

Abstract

The paper analyses the development of current legislation in regards to access to state secrets. In a historical aspect, attention is paid to the content of the Law on State Secrets in relation to legal groundwork for access to state secrets. Attention focuses on the fact that there are various types of information in society, each of which has its own mode of collection, storage, use, dissemination, and access. Category “access to information” covers both access to open information, which kind is public information, and access to restricted information, namely confidential, secret, and sensitive information. It is noted that “access to information” as a category of legal science and current legislation has different forms of manifestation, each of which is provided by the appropriate legal procedure. The violation of this procedure engenders certain legal consequences, the most severe among which are the application of legal liability measures. Access to state secrets is only one of the forms of access to information as provided in the national legislation.

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О. М. Сибіга

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О. М. Сибіга (2018). Access to state secrets: the place in the system of information access modes and the development of national legislation. Науковий вісник Міжнародного гуманітарного університету. Серія: «Юриспруденція», 35(1), 77-80. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-589859