Tag: public information

The levels of transparency and accountability of the state institutions in North Macedonia vary widely. Some of the state organs rank high on the list of accountable institutions, and are even among the best in the region, while others are at the bottom of the same list and almost unreachable for the citizens. Likewise, some of the institutions in North...

Three years after being covered by the Law on Free Access to Public Information, which made them holders of public information related to their financial operations, political parties are still not at a satisfactory level of transparency in terms of revenue and expenditure. However, it is considered a good start to increase their accountability to citizens, which is their...

Citizens, journalists, NGOs and all other requesters of public information in North Macedonia still mostly complain to the Agency for Protection of the Right to Free Access to Public Information about the silence of the administration. Even 163 of a total of 222 applications submitted to the Agency during the first six months of 2020 are about the failure...

Four offense procedures against officials at institutions - holders of public information are near their ends, replied today the Director of Norh Macedonia's Agency for the protection of the right to free access to information, Plamenka Bojcheva to a question posted by Meta.mk With the Law dating from 2019, the articles for offense sanctions had been precisely determined against holders...

The Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM) will sign a memorandum of cooperation with the Commission for the Protection of the Right of Free Access to Public Information, which will raise the level of social transparency and will facilitate the way journalists get information from state institutions  That was agreed upon at today's meeting with the representatives from the...