05 April 2016
The Access to Information Programme presented findings and conclusions from its sixteenth annual report Access to Information in Bulgaria 2015 at a pressconference held in the Bulgarian News Agency on April 5, 2016. The report contains:
- recommendations related to the access to information legal framework and its implementation, as well as other obligations granting transparency;
- detailed review of the amendments to the Access to Public Information Act (APIA) as of December 2015;
- analysis of the 2015 APIA amendments with regard to the proactive publication of information online;
- what are the institutions addressed and what type of information was sought by the requestors who turned for legal help to AIP in 2015;
- tendencies in the court practices on access to information cases in 2015 and summaries of cases in which AIP has provided court representation.
The text of the report in Bulgarian: http://store.aip-bg.org/publications/ann_rep_bg/report2015.pdf.
The report is prepared within the project Civil Center for Support of Transparency in Public Life, supported with a grant by the America for Bulgaria Foundation.