In the Netherlands the authorities are obliged to react on a request or an appeal to make official documents public within 28 days and an extra four weeks, otherwise the municipality, ministry, but also the police and the tax office will have to pay a fine.
Especially municipalities are flooded with requests and since there is often not enough time to react, many cases have to be compensated. The maximum fine is €. 1.260,=. The Europe correspondent form the news program of the second French public TV channel wants to propose to produce a reportage about this topic and needs more information.