Legal Statement on Proposed Amendments to the APIA

05.01.2002
On November 27, 2001, a group of members of Parliament: Borislav Tsekov, Valentin Tserovski, Nikolai Buchkov, Rupen Krikoryan, Emil Koshlukov, Husein Chaush proposed draft amendments to the Access to Public Information Act.
The Amending Act was passed at first hearing by Parliament on May 08, 2003.
 
The text of the Draft Amendments and the Grounds for the proposed amendments
 
AIP submitted a Legal Statement on the Proposed Amendments.
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Legal Statement on the Proposed Law on the Protection of Information, Classified as State or Official secret

05.01.2002

Two drafts for the Law on the Protection of Information, Classified as State or Official secret were introduced in Parliament in 2001:
1. Proposed by Dimitarm Abajiev, Ivo Tsanev and Ekaterina Mihailova (PG of UDF) on 26.07.2001
2. Approved by the Council of Ministers on 04.10.2001 and introduced in Parliament on 16.10.2001
Leading comission - Comission for National Securty and Social Order
 
AIP submitted a Legal Statement.
 
The memorandum of Article XIX - Global Campaign for Free Expression.
 
Here you can also read Schedule I, containing the list of information classified as state secret, and the motives of the presenters of the draft, approved by the Council of Ministers.


The Law on the Protection of Information, Classified as State or Official secret was adopted by Parliament on April 24, 2002.

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Legal Statement on Proposed Personal Data Protection Act

05.01.2002

Two drafts for the Personal Data Protection Act were introduced in 2001:
1. Introduced into Parliament by Nadejda Mihailova (PG of UDF) on 19.07.2001
2. Approved by the Council of Ministers and introduced in Parliament on 18.10.2001
 
The Leading comission was the Comission for National Securty and Social Order
 
AIP submitted a Legal Opinionon the draft acts.


The Personal Data Protection Act was adopted by Parliament on Dec. 21, 2001 and published in the State Gazette on Jan. 04, 2002

You can also read the Convention of Personal Data Protection with the Regard to Automatic Processing of Peronal Data.

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