An application for access to official documents must be addressed to the authority which created the documents or received the same as primary addressee from third parties not subject to this Act.
The Federal Council may provide a special procedure for access to official documents by Swiss representations abroad and by missions to international organisations.
The application must be formulated in a sufficiently accurate manner.
The Federal Council shall enact regulations governing the particulars of this procedure:
it shall take the special needs of the media into account;
if a large number of applications cover the same document, it may stipulate other modalities governing such access;
it may extend the processing deadlines for applications which require particularly extensive processing.