On February 19, 2013 the RA Administrative court decided to impose n administrative penalty on the head of the “Daughter Marianna” Co. Ltd Tigran Vardanyan for not providing information to the Freedom of Information Center’s information requests.

On November 18, 2011, the FOICA sent an information request to the head of the “Daughter Marianna” Co. Ltd Tigran Vardanyan asking to provide information about the milk products of the company. The company left the FOICA’s request unanswered. On December 6, 2011, the FOICA sent the second information request.

In response to the FOICA’s second request on December 16, 2011, the company replied, that the requested information is marked on each packet of the company’s product, as well, there was a referral to the company’s website. However, the requested information was available neither on the packet of the company’s products, nor on the company’s website.

As a result, on December 19, 2011, the FOICA filed a lawsuit in the RA Administrative Court asking to obligate the “Daughter Marianna” Co. Ltd to provide the requested information and to impose an administrative penalty on the head of the company Tigran Vardanyan. The court adopted the lawsuit only with the part of demand to impose an administrative penalty on the head of the company.

By the decision made on February 19, 2013, the RA Administrative court fully satisfied the FOICA’s claim, imposing an administrative penalty on the head of the company (fine at the amount of 80.000 AMD, 30.000 AMD from which is for not providing information to the FOICA’s first request, and 50.000 AMD for not providing information to the FOICA’s second request) and obliging the head of the “Daughter Marianna” Co. Ltd Tigran Vardanyan to compensate court expenses of the FOICA at the amount of 100.000 AMD and the 3.000 AMD state fee paid by the FOICA.