Access to Information Programme | Comments and analysis

Comments and analysis

Proposed changes in the Penal Code /Oct. 10, 2003/

Comments of Article 19, the Global Campaign for Free expression

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Letter of Open Society Justice Initiative to the Bulgarian lawmakers

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Article of prof. Alasdair Roberts, published in Dnevnik newspaper on Oct. 15 2003

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• Opinion of the AIP team on The Amending Act to the Access to Public Information Act presented by a group of members of Parliament: Borislav Tsekov, Valentin Tserovski, Nikolai Buchkov, Rupen Krikoryan, Emil Koshlukov, Husein Chaush on 27.11.2001.

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• Preliminary comments and recommendations by a group of legal experts of Access to Information Programme and Bulgarian Helsinki Committee related to the Access to Public Information draft Act

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• Concrete Proposals by AIP to Reword Parts of the Access to Public Information Bill

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• Analysis of the Montenegrin draft Access to Information Law with regard to the provisions of the Public Information Law and the international Standards for the freedom of information

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• The Varna Guidelines & Recommendations On Police - Media Relations

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• By virtue of Article 101(1) of the Constitution of the Republic of Bulgaria I HEREBY DECREE: I recommit the State Employees Act, adopted by the XXXVIII National Assembly on June 16th 1999, to the National Assembly Issued in Sofia, June 30th 1999 President of the Republic: Petar Stoyanov

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• MEMORANDUM Of the Participants in the Seminar ‘Access to Information – Practices and Local Regime’ The seminar was organised by the ‘Access to Information Program’ Foundation Stara Zagora – 25. 06. 1999

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• ARTICLE 19 • The International Centre Against Censorship • MEMORANDUM ON THE BULGARIAN DRAFT LAW ON ACCESS TO PUBLIC INFORMATION

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• OBSERVATIONS Of the Covington & Burling Regarding : the Access to Public Information Bill

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• Preliminary comments and recommendations by a group of legal experts of Access to Information Programme and Bulgarian Helsinki Committee related to the Access to Public Information draft Act

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• THE RIGHT OF ACCESS TO INFORMATION • CONCEPT ON LEGISLATION from 1998.
Experts who took part in the group working on the concept were: Alexander Kashumov, Gergana Jouleva, Dimitar Totev, Vesela Terzieva and Yonko Grozev from the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, Meglena Kouneva, a lawyer from the legal department of the Council of Ministers, Konstantin Palikarski, Fany Davidova. Also, Valeri Dimitrov, Stanislava Kuyumdzieva, Ralitsa Peeva got into the discussions.

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