information and on petitions, as well as the punishment provided in Article 181, Criminal Code) are largely ignored or disregarded. The problem of access to information was examined in 2019 by the representatives of the Public Association "Lawyers for Human Rights", which, within the Project "Promoting the right to information for the Moldovan public", with the financial support of the United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF), they litigated 40 strategic cases to improve the situation regarding access to information of public interest.97. It was established that the authorities are only partially open to provide the requested information of public interest, most entities did not comply with the legal deadline for submitting the information or provided the information only after against them there was filled an action in the court.98 Within the project, another experiment was carried out to measure the level of receptivity of central and local public authorities to requests for information of public interest. More than 100 telephone calls99 were made for this purpose, but only in 34 cases the answers were complex. A positive impact for the change of approaches to the issue addressed could have the decision of the Constitutional Court no. 29 of 12.12.2019 on the exception of unconstitutionality of Article 16, para. (9), of Law no. 180 of July 26, 2018, on voluntary declaration and fiscal stimulation (access to the information regarding the voluntary declaration of the goods, notification no. 106g / 2019). In this case examined by the Court, the State Fiscal Service refused to provide information of public interest to the Public Association “Lawyers for Human Rights”, invoking the provisions of Article 16 para. (9) of the Law on voluntary declaration and fiscal stimulation. The Constitutional Court found that the rule contained in Article 16 para. (9) of the Law on voluntary declaration and fiscal stimulation establishes excessive restrictions on the information in the possession of the State Fiscal Service 100 . The Court mentioned the unconstitutionality of Article 16 para. (9) of the Law on voluntary declaration and fiscal stimulation because it establishes a hierarchy between the two rights that is not allowed by the Constitution (in an 97 https://www.lhr.md/ro/2020/02/rezultatele-proiectului-promovarea-dreptului-la-informare-pentru-publicul-dinmoldova-autoritatile-au-devenit-mai-responsabile-atunci-cand-trebuie-sa-ofere-informatii-de-interespublic/?fbclid=IwAR2WYvRN1bqkcNB8oNH8v9WYtEkQ3WULvwunXsFGFfrj0HVri3c7A-Q90Zo 98 https://www.facebook.com/juristiidrepturileomului/videos/1543574905808043/ (Ina Sotchi, BAA lawyer “Tanase si Partenerii” about the strategic litigation on access to information of public interest) 99 https://www.lhr.md/ro/2020/02/studiu-institutiile-publice-mai-schiopateaza-atunci-cand-trebuie-sa-ofere-informatiide-interes-public/ 100 https://www.legis.md/cautare/getResults?doc_id=119876&lang=ru&lang=ro 57