(154) This regulation allows the principle of public access to official documents to be taken into account in applying its provisions. Public access to public documents can be considered a public interest. A public authority or public entity should be able to publicly disclose personal data from documents held by it, if such disclosure is provided for under Union law or the law of the Member State to which the authority or entity is subject. Such provisions should reconcile public access to public documents and the re-use of public sector information with the right to the protection of personal data, and may therefore provide for the necessary consideration of the right to the protection of personal data under this Regulation. The mention of public bodies and entities in this context should refer to all bodies or other entities covered by a Member State's law on public access to documents. Directive 2003/98/EC* of the European Parliament and of the Council does not affect or in any way affect the level of protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data under the provisions of Union and Member State law, and in particular does not alter the obligations and rights provided for in this Regulation. In particular, the Directive should not apply to documents to which - within access systems - access is excluded or restricted for reasons of personal data protection, or to fragments of documents accessible within such systems but containing personal data, the reuse of which has been determined by law to be incompatible with the law on the protection of natural persons in relation to the processing of personal data.