ONLY 20% OF INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE
European countries are not proactively publishing information about who public officials meet with any reasons justifying their decisions nor records created regarding policy and legislation, impeding public participation and scrutiny of decision making processes.
WAS THE INFORMATION WE LOOKED FOR PROACTIVELY PUBLISHED?
THE RESULTS IN DETAIL:
DOCUMENT-BY-DOCUMENT
WHAT TYPE OF DOCUMENTS DID WE LOOK FOR?
We focused on types of documents we believe to be relevant when trying to follow and understand a specific decision-making process.
This is the kind of information we searched for:
PROACTIVE PUBLICATION COUNTRY-BY-COUNTRY
Find below the results of our analysis on the state of proactive publication in these 12 European jurisdictions. Keep scrolling to find more details per country: what kind of information we looked for, what we managed to find proactively published, and what we didn’t.

Austria
We looked for information regarding FOI law amendments, awards of honorary titles, pesticides legislation, tobacco law and copyright.WAS THE INFORMATION PROACTIVELY PUBLISHED?
90% of information was not proactivelly published! Find out a bit more…
Croatia
We looked for information regarding Catholic Church exemptions, tenders for oil exploitation and conversion of citizen's credits to Euros.WAS THE INFORMATION PROACTIVELY PUBLISHED?
64% of information was not proactivelly published! Find out a bit more…
European Union
We looked for information regarding the adoption of a mandatory lobby register at the EU level.WAS THE INFORMATION PROACTIVELY PUBLISHED?
50% of information was not proactivelly published! Find out a bit more…
Finland
We looked for information regarding the adoption of a mandatory lobby register at the EU level.WAS THE INFORMATION PROACTIVELY PUBLISHED?
81% of information was not proactivelly published! Find out a bit more…
Germany
We looked for information regarding CO2 limits, minimum wage, pharma laws, inheritance taxes and pension reform.WAS THE INFORMATION PROACTIVELY PUBLISHED?
100% of information was not proactivelly published! Find out a bit more…
Greece
We looked for information regarding open data and access to information, civil partnership and business licensing simplification.WAS THE INFORMATION PROACTIVELY PUBLISHED?
60% of information was not proactivelly published! Find out a bit more…
Ireland
We looked for information regarding the FOI Act, legislation on policing authorities and miscellaneous and tobacco legislation.WAS THE INFORMATION PROACTIVELY PUBLISHED?
69% of information was not proactivelly published! Find out a bit more…
Italy
We looked for information regarding the budget law, prorogations decree and reform of the educational system.WAS THE INFORMATION PROACTIVELY PUBLISHED?
0% of information was not proactivelly published! Find out a bit more…
Poland
We looked for information regarding re-use of public sector information, public procurement legislation and infertility treatment legislation.WAS THE INFORMATION PROACTIVELY PUBLISHED?
53% of information was not proactivelly published! Find out a bit more…
Slovenia
We looked for information regarding telecommunications companies privatisation, Family Code proposal and legislation on net neutrality.WAS THE INFORMATION PROACTIVELY PUBLISHED?
57% of information was not proactivelly published! Find out a bit more…
Spain
We looked for information regarding plans on companies and human rights, own electricity supply and production regulation and Open Government Partnership action plans.WAS THE INFORMATION PROACTIVELY PUBLISHED?
100% of information was not proactivelly published! Find out a bit more…