Citizens Have the Right to Know Agains the Law on Confidentiality of Information
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“Citizens Have the Right to Know” NGO coalition that emerged from the 2003 campaign to adopt the Law on Free Access to Information, sent last Friday an open letter to the Parliamentary Clubs in the Croatian Sabor, demanding from the MPs to renounce the Draft-Law on Confidentiality of Information.
The letter emphasizes that the Draft-Law is in colision with the Law on the Right to Access Information, the Constitution and the recommendations of the Council of Europe. The Coalition proposed to use this opportunity and adopt quality changes and amendments to the Law on the Right to Access Information and to approximate the Law on Confidentiality of Information to these changes and amendments. With that goal in mind, the Coalition submitted to the Sabor its proposals for changes and amendments to the Access to Information Law, prepared by a group of experts from the School of Law, Zagreb University. This proposal contains the minimum of standards that will have to be built in the existing Law to make it fully compliant to the high European standards in the area of access to information posessed by the public governance bodies, says the Coalition. The Coalition includes a number of organizations, such as the Croatian Helsinki Committee, Transparency International Croatia, Croatian Legal Centre, Croatian Journalist Association, the Citizens Committee for Human Rights, the European Movement, the Osijek Coalition for Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, B.a.B.e., Centre for Civil Initiatives, Consumer Protection Association, Human Rights Centre, Centre for Peace Studies, Croatian Librarian Association, Zelena Akcija, Potrosac (Consumer) Association>, Eko Kvarner, Centre for Independent Journalism and Journalists’ Club. |
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