In October 2006 Access to Information Programme celebrated 10 years since its establishment.

This 64-page brochure presents the history of our organization: the origins; the establishment of our network of coordinators in 1997; legislative advocay; legal help; monitoring of the implementation of the Access to Public Information Act; litigation; the media campaigns; training sessions; networking; our publications and projects.

Available: Acrobat PDF (1.8Mb)

Annual Report Access to Information in Bulgaria, 2006

The Report contains recommendations for improving the freedom of information legislation, the connected legislation and the practices within the Bulgarian public institutions.

The report includes:

• detailed analysis of the existing FOI legislation and ammendments;
• results from monitoring on the active provision of information by the institutions on their web sites;
• characteristics of the specific cases consulted by Access to Information Programme;
• and an overview of the most interesting developments in the FOI litigation in 2006, including resumes of all cases in which AIP has provided court representation.

Available: Acrobat PDF (1.6Mb)