Information that constitutes an official secret

This article analyzes the various approaches to the definition of terms of information, access to which may be restricted to professional secrecy mode, as well as analysis of various departmental list of information constituting the official secret or confidential information. The analysis of the two models restrict access to information implemented in the right state regulation tie us and the legal regime of a trade secret as the mandatory and discretionary model. Argued the inadmissibility of the restriction of access to information held by public authorities in general, as provided for by the Federal Law «About public service». The author makes a conclusion about the necessity of legislative consolidation of a single list of data which may be official secret for streamlining information, the possibility of introducing sanctions for violations of the protection and observance of human rights to information. Also, the paper gives a detailed classification of information, access to which is limited mostly by public authorities and concluded that according to incomplete lists of federal legislation requirements.