Almost two months after the start of the war, the Ministry of Justice launched an initiative to close open data, which is managed by the Ministry of Justice. The corresponding order was published on the website of the Ministry..

Neither the order itself nor any information on the website of the Ministry of Justice contains any clear explanation of this initiative..

The preamble of the order notes that the Ministry of Justice decided to stop the disclosure of information in accordance with Article 20 of the Law of Ukraine dated May 12, 2015. No. 389-VIII " No. 64 "

However, Article 20 of this law only allows restrictions on the rights and freedoms of citizens and legal entities under martial law, and refers to the articles of the Constitution on rights and freedoms that cannot be limited. Which in no way explains the initiative of the Ministry of Justice.

And the Decree of the President of February 24, 2022 introduced martial law for only 30 days. That is, at the time of issuing the order of the Ministry of Justice, this normative act had exhausted its force in terms of the introduction of martial law. And only on April 21, that is, a week after the order of the Ministry of Justice, the Verkhovna Rada supported the presidential bill No. 7300, by which martial law in Ukraine was extended until May 25.

It should be noted that according to the order of the Ministry of Justice dated March 28, 2016. No. 897/5 "

Unified State Register of Legal Entities, Individuals - Entrepreneurs and Public Formations;

Unified register of notaries;

State Register of Certified Forensic Experts;

Unified register of special forms of notarial documents;

Notifications of auctions and other information on the sale of confiscated and seized property and their results, on property for gratuitous transfer;

State register of print media and news agencies as subjects of information activities;

Unified register of enterprises in respect of which bankruptcy proceedings have been initiated;

Unified State Register of Regulatory Legal Acts;

Register of valid, blocked and revoked public key certificates;

Register of administrative-territorial unit;

Information on the automated system of enforcement proceedings;

Unified register of debtors;

Data of the central database of the electronic trading system for seized property.

Now, according to the initiative of the Ministry of Justice, administrators of unified and state registries are required to delete already published information in the form of open data.