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Legal Support of Demand for Public Information - Building on the Achieved Results and Stabilizing Positive Practices
May 1, 2012 – April 30, 2015

Donor of the project: Open Society Foundations

Description: The aim of this project is to facilitate the demand for public information by providing legal help in cases and stabilizing the court practice for enforcement of overriding public interest amendments to the APIA in Bulgaria.

Activities:

  • Providing consultancy in the AIP office on everyday basis to journalists, NGOs and citizens in cases where they seek information and in cases of refusal;
  • Filing applications and submissions to the administrative courts; 
  • Representing ATI cases in courts;
  • Systematizing of the litigation practices;
  • Permanent media campaign on ATI cases and practices through publications in FOI Newsletter, central and local media, AIP blog, FOIANetwork mailing list, on the website;
  • Presenting results from litigation on a national conference before lawyers and other interested parties;
  • Cooperation with partner organizations.

Expected results:

  • Increased awareness of citizens, NGOs, and journalists of their right to access government held information;
  • Increased number of successful cases when information of high public interest is sought;
  • Disseminated knowledge of successful cases to the public at large;
  • More encouraged people to exercise their right of access to information;
  • Increased knowledge of public administration to apply the public interest test;
  • Analysis of access to information litigation practices in Bulgaria;
  • Establishment of more consistent and advance court practice;
  • Increased government openness and accountability in the fields of: public registers, public procurements, public sector services performed by private companies; 
  • Regional and international exchange of information on access to information litigation.

Results:

News on latest ATI litigation developments can be found on the special AIP web site section: http://www.aip-bg.org/en/cases/News/.

Summaries of court cases delivered on strategic access to information cases assisted by AIP are available at: http://www.aip-bg.org/en/cases/Litigation/107289/.

Statistics and analyses of access to information litigation is part of AIP annual report Access to Information in Bulgaria.

Statistics and characteristics of cases referred to AIP for legal help by journalists, citizens, and NGOs can be found here.

Summary of results from the media campaign on ATI cases and practices can be seen at: http://www.aip-bg.org/en/publications/mediareactions/.


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