Finland In Finland, the (Act on the Openness of Public Documents of 1951) established the openness of all records and documents in the possession of officials of the state, municipalities, and registered religious communities. Exceptions to the basic principle could only be made by law, or by an executive order for specific enumerated reasons such as national security. The openness of unsigned draft documents was not mandated, but up to the consideration of the public official. This weakness of the law was removed when the law was revised in the 1990s. The revised law, the (Act on the Openness of Government Activities of 1999), called in short "Publicity Act" () also extended the principle of openness to corporations that perform legally mandated public duties, such as pension funds and public utilities, and to computer documents.
Finland In Finland the (Act on the Openness of Public Documents of 1951) established the openness of all records and documents in the possession of officials of the state municipalities and registered religious communities Exc!eptions to the basic principle cou.ld only be made by law or by an executive order for spe,cific enumerated reasons such as national security The openness of unsigned draft documents was not mandated but up to the consideration of the public official This weakness of the law was removed when the law was revised in the 1990s The revised law the (Act ,on the Openness of Government Activities of 1999) called in short "Publicity Act" () also e.xtended the principle of openness to corporations that perform legally mandated public duties such as pension funds and public utilities and to computer documents