NEWS AND EVENTS
THE ADMINISTRATION’S SILENCE REMAINS THE MAIN OBSTACLE TO TRANSPARENCY
30.07.2025
The Agency for the Protection of the Right to Free Access to Public Information has prepared a semi-annual analysis for the period January-June 2025, with a focus on the silence of the administration as a serious and recurring phenomenon that threatens the transparency of the institutions. In the first six months of 2025, a...
THE SILENCE OF THE ADMINISTRATION – A SYSTEMIC OBSTACLE TO TRANSPARENCY
22.07.2025
The Agency for the Protection of the Right to Free Access to Public Information prepared an analysis on the silence of the administration in the Western Balkan countries. The silence of the administration – specifically, the failure to respond to information requests within the legally prescribed time limit – has been identified as a...
TRANSPARENCY AS A BASIS FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE: THE 2024 REGIONAL REPORT OF THE BALKAN INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER NETWORK (BIRN) PRESENTED
30.06.2025
In the organization of the Balkan Investigative Reporters Network (BIRN), on June 30, 2025, the online event “The state of free access to information in the Western Balkans – Review for 2024” was held. The Austrian Development Agency supported the event, and Plamenka Bojcheva, Director of the Agency for the Protection of the Right to...
THE AGENCY BECAME PART OF THE NEW EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR TRANSPARENCY AND RIGHT TO INFORMATION – ENTRI
26.06.2025
At the International Conference of Information Commissioners (ICIC 2025), held from 23 to 25 June 2025 in Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany, the new European Network on Transparency and Right to Information (ENTRI) was officially established. In the next three-year period, the network will be chaired by the German Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and...
