ZAKRES UDOSTĘPNIANIA AKT SPRAWY W POSTĘPOWANIU ADMINISTRACYJNYM

Abstract

In administrative proceedings, files o f a case are accessible only to the parties, their attorneys and other participants with the rights of a party. The scope of the duty to make the files accessible to the parties is determined first o f all by the notion “files of a case”, which may be interpreted in different ways. The doctrine accepts a broad (“substantive”) understanding of this notion. This duty is also delimited by the “formal” factors: a technical, and a legal one. Thus, it refers only to files which are, at a given moment, available, save for files protected as a state secret, files excluded for the sake of an important public interest. Public interest may be a reason for excluding files which contain a classified information. Accessibility of files which contain information constituting some other type o f secret protected by law (business secret, professional secret) is disputable. De lege lata there is no legal ground for the refusal to make such files accessible to parties.