The Scottish Information Commissioner is responsible for enforcing and promoting the right to access information held by public authorities, created by the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004, both of which came into force on 1 January 2005. The Act and the Regulations give anyone, anywhere in the world, important rights to access the information held by more than 10,000 public authorities in Scotland.

Decisions here are issued by the Scottish Information Commissioner are published on the Scottish Information Commissioner website. This includes decisions made under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and those made under the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004.

The Scottish Information Commissioner has adopted the Open Government Licence for public sector information, from 23 February 2011. You can find a copy of this licence on the National Archives website - click this link to view: Open Government Licence for public sector information.