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1 Jul 2015

Access Info condemns sabotage of Hungarian FOI law

2018-11-13T09:46:14+01:00

Madrid, 1 July 2015 - Access Info Europe today condemned the proposal by the Hungarian government to amend the Freedom of Information Act in ways that would seriously limit the exercise of the right of access to information in Hungary. Hungarian civil society is reacting strongly to the proposal put by the government to an accelerated decree process in parliament which would result in arbitrary fees for searching for data and for copying and delivering it.[1] Other concerns are that the new rules would permit refusal of requests on the grounds that documents are “preparatory” or the copyright of third

Access Info condemns sabotage of Hungarian FOI law2018-11-13T09:46:14+01:00
30 Jun 2015

Lanzamiento de Polétika.org: los compromisos políticos y electorales sobre el derecho de acceso a la información, ahora bajo lupa

2018-11-13T10:06:54+01:00

Madrid, 30 de junio de 2015 – A falta de unos meses para las próximas elecciones generales, esperadas antes de final de año, 166 organizaciones de la sociedad civil [1] han lanzado hoy Polétika.org, una página web que llevará a cabo una labor de monitoreo de promesas electorales en áreas como transparencia, regulación del lobby, participación, protección social o fiscalidad justa, y permitirá a los ciudadanos y ciudadanas ejercer presión sobre sus candidatos para que mejoren y afiancen estos compromisos. Esta herramienta, puesta en marcha por Intermón Oxfam y CIECODE, está basada en una web interactiva que se actualiza constantemente,

Lanzamiento de Polétika.org: los compromisos políticos y electorales sobre el derecho de acceso a la información, ahora bajo lupa2018-11-13T10:06:54+01:00
26 Jun 2015

Lobbying Transparency via RTI Laws

2018-11-13T09:46:14+01:00

This document sets out the classes of information that should be made available by public bodies in order to get a full picture of the influence of interest groups, particularly lobbyists, on governmental and legislative decision making. You can download the report in PDF and in Word . If you have any comments about the contents of this report, we are happy to hear from you. For a member of the public to be able to follow how a particular decision is being or was taken, it is essential that there be full transparency about the influences which shaped that

Lobbying Transparency via RTI Laws2018-11-13T09:46:14+01:00
26 Jun 2015

New lobby transparency civic-tech tools reveal corporate dominance of the Brussels bubble

2020-01-29T11:07:19+01:00

Madrid, 25 June 2015 - The RTI community celebrated this week the launch of two groundbreaking online tools that enable citizens to monitor the interactions between high-level European Commission officials and lobbyists in the Brussels bubble: » LobbyFacts.eu, created by ALTER-EU's Corporate Europe's Observatory, Friends of the Earth Europe and LobbyControl, and relaunched last week, is a site that delivers easy access to data from the EU Transparency Register, allowing you to compare entries over time and to sort and rank the data contained in the EU's (still voluntary) Transparency Register; » IntegrityWatch.eu, created by the Transparency International EU office,

New lobby transparency civic-tech tools reveal corporate dominance of the Brussels bubble2020-01-29T11:07:19+01:00
26 Jun 2015

Victoria Anderica: «Queremos crear una ordenanza que obligue a dar la máxima información»

2018-11-13T10:06:54+01:00

Eldiario.es | 26/06/2015 Español – El Ayuntamiento de Madrid, liderado por Manuela Carmena, ha nombrado a la activista Victoria Anderica directora del proyecto de transparencia, dependiente de la Concejalía de Participación Ciudadana, Transparencia y Gobierno Abierto, responsabilidad de Pablo Soto. Anderica, licenciada en Derecho y con un máster en Comunicación, Cultura y Ciudadanía Digitales, ha trabajado durante cinco años en el proyecto Access Info, donde destaca su labor de lobby para la aprobación de la ley de transparencia en España. Leer más…

Victoria Anderica: «Queremos crear una ordenanza que obligue a dar la máxima información»2018-11-13T10:06:54+01:00
24 Jun 2015

European Commission urged to act to improve transparency

2018-11-13T10:04:49+01:00

Madrid, 24 June 2015 – In a letter to European Commission Vice-President Timmermans as part of an ongoing dialogue, Access Info Europe has called for action to improve EU transparency in law and in practice. The pro-transparency organisation stressed the urgent need to bring the EU’s access to documents rules into line with international standards, and raised concerns about problems accessing key documents, as observed in responses to requests submitted on the AsktheEU.org platform. Access Info’s analysis of the EU’s access to documents Regulation 1049/2001 using the RTI Rating, found that although it scores a solid 96 out of 150,

European Commission urged to act to improve transparency2018-11-13T10:04:49+01:00
22 Jun 2015

Ten Challenges for the Right to Information in the Age of Mega-Leaks

2018-11-13T10:05:08+01:00

In the recently published book "The UN and Freedom of Expression and Information - Critical Perspectives", from Cambridge University Press, Access Info’s Executive Director Helen Darbishire maps the current state of the right of access to information and sets out some of the challenges currently facing the right. Darbishire notes that although the world’s first access to information law was adopted 250 years ago in Sweden 1766, it took the UN until 2011 to recognise this as a fundamental human right linked to the right to freedom of expression, and much remains to be done in defining this right and

Ten Challenges for the Right to Information in the Age of Mega-Leaks2018-11-13T10:05:08+01:00
19 Jun 2015

European Commission fails to prove the need for its postal addresses policy

2018-11-13T09:46:14+01:00

Madrid, 19 June 2015 – Access Info Europe this week expressed concern at the European Commission’s insistence on maintaining its obstructive requirement for all documents requesters to provide their postal addresses, after the Commission admitted in response to parliamentary questions that the policy is based on just one case of “abuse” over the past 14 years. Answering a parliamentary question by MEP Julia Reda, the Commission cited the case of a requester who allegedly used 13 identities to submit requests, the only case they could identify since the access to documents regulation came into force in 2001. Julia Reda immediately

European Commission fails to prove the need for its postal addresses policy2018-11-13T09:46:14+01:00
19 Jun 2015

Transparency is Essential for a Credible Post-2015 Development Agenda

2018-11-13T10:05:08+01:00

Madrid, 19 June 2015 – Access Info Europe has joined civil society organisations from around the globe in calling on the UN to take significant steps to integrate transparency, accountability and participation more fully into the Post-2015 development agenda. In proposing a series of crucial edits to the “Zero Draft” of the Outcome Document for the Post-2015 Development Agenda, the Transparency, Accountability and Participation (TAP) Network argues that a development framework that fails to promote openness will lack credibility and risks disempowering the very communities it should be serving. “The development agenda for the next 15 years must include mechanisms that

Transparency is Essential for a Credible Post-2015 Development Agenda2018-11-13T10:05:08+01:00
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