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Promotion of Open Government through FOI Legal
Assistance and Litigation Description: The aim of this project is to promote transparency and accountability of government by encouraging and facilitating public demand for government held information. The project objectives are to support citizens and journalists who seek government held information; to help people get access to justice in FOI cases; to address the courts in cases when information of high public interest is refused; to systematize FOI litigation practices; to use the results of legal assistance in public campaign for better Freedom of information practices; ant to spread out the positive results of the AIP experience in national and global networks. The aims of the project will be fulfill through provision of consultancy to journalists, NGOs and citizens in cases where they seek information and in cases of refusal; filing applications and submissions to the administrative courts; court representation; and permanent media campaign on FOI cases and practices. Donor of the project: Open Society Institute, Human Rights and Governance Grants Program, Budapest Rresults: More information
National “Access to Information Litigation in Bulgaria” Conference was organized and held on March 27, 2009 in Sofia. The conference was organized and held by AIP in the frame of the project Promotion of Open Government through FOI Legal Assistance and Litigation, financed by the Open Society Institute, Human Rights and Governance Grants Program, Budapest. Among the 90 participants were lawyers, judges from administrative courts, representatives of NGOs, media, activists, citizens who have submitted ATI requests and have appealed refusals in the court. The Chairperson of the Supreme Administrative Court, Mr. Konstantin Penchev addressed the audience at the opening. Foreign experts from Ukraine, Georgia, Spain, Macedonia, the Netherlands, and UK took part in the conference. Access to Information Litigation in Bulgaria 2005-2008: Selected Cases, volume 4 is available in English. The book was published in 2008. It contains analytical part, which reviews the main problems related to the court practice with regard to the Access to Public Information Act during the last years. The analysis encompasses the development of both cases related to the exercise of the right of access to public information and to the implementation of the exemptions from the right of access to information. Summaries and twenty-seven decisions on 14 court cases in which AIP legal team has provided legal help, including court representation, were included as appendices to the book. At the presentation of the volume 4 of the Access to Public Information Litigation in Bulgaria (2005-2008), the Chairman of the Supreme Administrative Court, Mr. Konstantin Penchev noted:
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