The Act on Access to Public Information is the basis for exercising the right of citizens and other entities to obtain information on public matters. This regulation, despite its undoubted advantages, contains numerous shortcomings that impede the proper implementation of the above mentioned right. The considerations undertaken in the present work relate primarily to the procedural provisions of this Act. The analysis of the regulations gives grounds for claiming that they are too general and therefore ambiguous, which hinders their proper application. This leads to the conclusion that it is necessary to introduce legislative changes, in particular regarding the clarification of formal requirements and the procedure for submitting a request for public information and the legal forms of its disclosure.