Requests Under The Regulations
One is that requests for information under the Regulations do not have be made in writing, they can be made verbally. The exemptions that public sector authorities can claim under the Regulations are structured somewhat differently as well. In many cases they are narrower in their scope and application. As with the Freedom of Information Act, public authorities have 20 working days from the receipt of a request to provide the information to the requester.
The Environmental Information Regulations are regulated by the UK Information Commissioner; the Scottish regulations are regulated by the Scottish Information Commissioner.
Read more about this topic: Environmental Information Regulations 2004
Famous quotes containing the words requests and/or regulations:
“I haven’t seen so much tippy-toeing around since the last time I went to the ballet. When members of the arts community were asked this week about one of their biggest benefactors, Philip Morris, and its requests that they lobby the New York City Council on the company’s behalf, the pas de deux of self- justification was so painstakingly choreographed that it constituted a performance all by itself.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent, the number of the former would, in all cases, exceed that of the latter.”
—Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt (1767–1835)