5 7. That the Court deems the hearing of monitoring compliance with the paragraphs pending compliance in the instant case highly useful. * * * 8. That with regard to the obligation to adopt the necessary measures to secure the right of access to State-held information provided for in operative paragraph 7 of the Judgment, the State informs that Law No. 20,285 - Ley de Transparencia y Acceso a la Información de la Administración del Estado (Law on Transparency in Public Office and Access to Information on State Administration) (hereinafter, the “Law”) – was promulgated and published in the Official Gazette on August 11 and 20, 2008, respectively. The State highlightes that Article 10 of the Law guarantees to all persons the right to request and receive information from any entity of the State Administration and establishes, inter alia, the principles of: relevance, whereby the relevance of the information held by State organs is presumed; accessibility or transparency, whereby the information held by State organs is deemed public; maximum disclosure, whereby the Administration is obliged to provide information in the widest practicable manner, excluding only constitutional or legal exceptions; simplicity, whereby the access to information procedure must be as smooth as to set aside obstructing requirements or formalities; opportunity, whereby, as prompt as possible and without delay, the Administration is obliged to furnish information within statutory time limits; control, whereby ongoing monitoring and appealability before external organs of access to information requests are secured; responsibility, whereby liability and statutory penalties arise from non-compliance with obligations; and gratuitousness, whereby access to information procedure is free of charge. Finally, the State informs, among other issues, of the procedure set out in the Law to exercise the right of access to information, the available remedies and the functioning and powers of the Council for Transparency, an entity provided for in the Law as a public law autonomous corporation, with legal standing and own assets, with powers to protect and promote the right of access to information. 9. That, furthermore, according to the Court’s request by Order of May 2, 2008, the State replies to the observations made by the representative in relation to three sections of the Law: