04 July 2011

The Access to Information Programme (AIP) Annual Report Access to Information in Bulgaria 2010 is now available in English online.

 

The Report was presented at a press conference at the National News Agency on May 4, 2011.

 

The eleventh Access to Information in Bulgaria Annual Report contains practical recommendations for improving access to information in Bulgaria.

Based on the detailed analysis of the legislation, the specifics of the access to information cases referred to AIP for legal help, the assessment of the active disclosure of information online, and the access to information litigation in 2010, AIP identifies several persisting problems:

In 2010, the Bulgarian government did not undertake any measures to start the procedure of signing and ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on Access to Official Documents.

 

Based on the analysis of the access to information practices, AIP recommends:

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in the Access to Information in Bulgaria 2010.

 

The Report is published with the financial support of the Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE Trust) in the framework of the project Support to Access to Information Programme as a Freedom of Information Civic Resource Center (FOICRC), and America for Bulgaria Foundation in the framework of the project Responding to the New Demand for Freedom of Information.