Denmark
Offentlighedsloven
Lov nr. 606 af 12. juni 2013
Denmark's access law, with a 7-working-day target — the fastest fixed clock in this register. The Air Force released its UFO archive in January 2009.
The clock
7 business days
As soon as possible, and within 7 working days unless volume or complexity makes that impossible — in which case the requester must be told why, and when to expect an answer.
The Flyvertaktisk Kommando UFO registrations (1978–2002, about 300 pages) were released and published online in January 2009 — ask for the release, not for aktindsigt on records already public.
Reading the statute itself
The text of this one is not reproduced here: foreign legislation is published under its own country’s copyright rules, so it is linked instead. Everything on this page — the deadline, the appeal path, the fee standard — is Aletheca’s summary of that text, and the official source is one click away.
If they refuse
- Appeal deadline
- Not specified
- Appeal route
- Complaint routed through the authority to its superior body, then the Folketing's Ombudsman.
- Litigation
- The courts are rarely used; the Ombudsman is the effective route.
Fees and expedition
Fee-waiver standard
Free for most electronic access.
Aletheca argues this on every request it files here. A service that publishes every page it receives, free, to a public archive has an unusually strong showing — considerably stronger than a private requester’s.
Exemptions it allows
- §31 Statens sikkerhed og rigets forsvar
- §30 Private forhold