Letter to the Editor
Well-informed citizens and access to public sector information
Željka Tropina Godec
; Central State Office for Public Administration
Abstract
Access to public sector information is important for the publicness of public administration and of the government. The right to access information is an innovation that has been spreading from the Scandinavian countries to the USA and the rest of Europe. Croatia enacted this right in 2003. The paper analyses international legal documents that are in force and those that are being drafted. It also analyses Croatian Law on Access to Information. The author provides and analyses the data about exercising this right between 2004 and 2008, according to official reports. She also mentions the critiques of the Law and the manner of its implementation.
Keywords
the right to access information – Croatia; public administration; publicness of administration; citizens’ rights and freedoms; information
Hrčak ID:
135755
URI
Publication date:
2.6.2009.
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