Abstract: With the development of the telephone connection services the economic value of telephone numbers becomes higher, since their resource is objectively limited. While regulating the telephone service relations, the civil law has to deal with the phenomena, such as remunerated singling out and “sale” of “pretty” telephone numbers. The latest changes in the legislation legalized keeping the call number when the operator of mobile telephone connection is changed, so the science needs to qualify the nature of telephone number and its participation in the turnover. The article provides substantiation for the thesis, that is it not possible to regard a telephone number as an object of rights, or as property, since it holds no independent value outside of the telephone connection relations, and it is just a quality of telephone connection service. The phenomenon for remunerated provision of “pretty” numbers by the communications providers is explained at the time when the contract is concludes as an “additional communications service”. “Sale” of telephone numbers to the customers is in fact achieved not with the sales contract, but with the deals providing for the succession in the obligations arising from the subscribers agreements.

Keywords: callings address, “pretty” numbres, “sale” of telelphone numbers, object of law, communications services, keeping the phone number, transfer of the phone number, change of the phone number, turnover of a phone number, addittional communications service.

Abstract: The information which is of interest for the public should be available to it. The main owners of such information are state government and municipal bodies. Disclosure of information of public interest is an obligation of the relevant bodies, unless access to it is limited by law. By these means the right of citizens to access information is being guaranteed. This right is at the basis of the social control and the right to participate in managing the affairs of the state. By comparative analysis of the provisions of normative legal acts on regulation of the procedures of social control and information disclosure, the author provides the study of the right to access the information as the legal basis for the social control. The specific features of the definition of “disclosure of the information”, its role in the information turnover allows to make a conclusion on the need for the normative provisions for this term. The author also offers the definition of “public interests” as a criterion for the disclosure of the information and the basis for the public control.

Keywords: disclosure of the information, right to information, public control, social interest, open data, information openness, provision of information, spreading information, public hearings, information system.