History of the Access to Public Information Act

• Access to Public Information Act. (Promulgated, SG No. 55/7.07.2000, amended, SG No. 1/4.01.2002, effective 1.01.2002, SG No. 45/30.04.2002, SG No. 103/23.12.2005, SG No. 24/21.03.2006, SG No. 30/11.04.2006, SG No. 59/21.07.2006, SG No. 49/19.06.2007, SG No. 57/13.07.2007, SG No.104/05.12.2008)

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• Access to Public Information Act. Draft.

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• The Right of Access to Information • CONCEPT ON LEGISLATION from 1998.
Experts who took part in the group working on the concept were: Alexander Kashumov, Gergana Jouleva, Dimitar Totev, Vesela Terzieva and Yonko Grozev from the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, Meglena Kouneva, a lawyer from the legal department of the Council of Ministers, Konstantin Palikarski, Fany Davidova. Also, Valeri Dimitrov, Stanislava Kuyumdzieva, Ralitsa Peeva got into the discussions.

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• Opinion on the Access to Public Information Bill, N 902-01-34, proposed by the Council of Ministers, Thirty-eighth National Assembly Committee on Human Rights, Religions, Appeals and Petitions of Citizens

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• Opinion Of Committee on Legal Issues and Legislation on Anti-Corruption, Thirty-eighth National Assembly Committee on Legal Issues and Legislation on Anti-Corruption

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• Preliminary comments and recommendations by a group of legal experts of Access to Information Programme and Bulgarian Helsinki Committee related to the Access to Public Information draft Act

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• Concrete Proposals by AIP to Reword Parts of the Access to Public Information Bill

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