§ 29 HDSIG
Right of Information of the Landtag and the
(1)Municipal Representative Bodies
(2)The Hessian Central Office for Data Processing, the Municipal Area Computing Centres and the public bodies of the Land that operate data processing equipment and devices shall be obliged to provide the Landtag, the President of the Landtag and the parliamentary groups of the Landtag with the information requested by them within the scope of their competences on the basis of the stored data, insofar as evaluation programs are available. The information must not contain personal data. The information must not be contrary to a legal prohibition or a public interest. A public interest shall generally not preclude the right of information of the Landtag. The Landtag shall have access to the data insofar as it is ensured by technical measures that the limits of sentences 1 to 3 are observed.
(3)The Landtag may request from the Land government information about the existing procedures suitable for information or access pursuant to para. 1. The request for information may extend to 1. the name of the procedure with a brief functional description, 2. the existing procedures, 3. the structure of the data records with information on the content and the ordering criteria, 4. the existing evaluation programmes, 5. the competent authority.
(4)The right of information pursuant to para. 1 shall, within the scope of their competences, also be available to the municipal assemblies and the county councils and their parliamentary groups and the corresponding bodies of the other public bodies referred to in § 2 para. 1, vis-a-vis the Hessian Central Office for Data Processing, the competent Municipal Area Computing Centre and the authorities of the municipalities and counties that operate data processing equipment and devices. Requests by parliamentary groups shall be submitted through the municipal executive board in the municipalities and through the county committee in the counties. zur Einzelansicht § 29