The Supreme Administrative Court upheld the decision of the Veliko Tarnovo Administrative Court repealing the refusal by the President of the Veliko Tarnovo University to provide information on the project “The Water’s Way - nature and culture sightseeing itineraries for sustainable tourism.”
The case was initiated after the citizen Kamelia Dzhanabetsja obtained a refusal based on the grounds that the information is not public and its disclosure would not give the requester the opportunity to form an opinion on the University’s activities. The reason that triggered the filing of the request was the refusal of the VT University to bring to an end the implementation of a project funded under the EU programs.
The refusal of the VT University President was challenged with the legal help of AIP.
By decision (in Bulgarian) of 24 March 2014, the Supreme Administrative Court upheld the decision of the Veliko Tarnovo Administrative Court repealing the refusal by the President of the Veliko Tarnovo University to provide information on the project “The Water’s Way - nature and culture sightseeing itineraries for sustainable tourism”. The SAC adopted the reasoning of the first instance court that the information is public and the project’s resources origin (EU funds) by itself supposes that in this case there is overriding public interest of disclosure of the information sought.