According to the Act on the Openness of Government Activities, all documents submitted to an authority become public in principle when the authority has received them. This also applies to cost subsidy applications. Anyone can obtain information on applications by request.
However, in addition to the public parts, an application may contain confidential information which is not passed on from the agency. If the applicant considers that his/her application contains business or professional secrets (as defined in Article 24(1)(20) of the Act on the Openness of Government Activities), he/she may indicate in the application the information he/she considers to be business secrets and the grounds on which he/she considers the information to be confidential. In this way, the State Treasury will know what the applicant himself considers to be a trade secret. However, the State Treasury has the final say, by law, as to what aspects of a document are confidential.