Hi, As Ádám said, a very sad day for FOI in Hungary: http://kmonitor.hu/news/hungarian-news/while-joining-the-ogp-hungary-weakens-its-foi-legislation
Best, Sandor On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Adam Foldes <afol...@transparency.org>wrote: > Dear all, > > Some recent and rather sad news on freedom of information from Hungary. > > http://atlatszo.hu/2013/04/29/hungarian-parliament-to-curtail-freedom-of-information-legislation/ > > The Bill was submitted to the Parliament on Sunday (see the date on the > document http://www.parlament.hu/irom39/10904/10904.pdf) and the > Parliament after a very thorough consideration adopted it today in the > morning. > > The timing of the adoption of the Bill, that was rushed through the > Parliament, perfectly shows Hungary's commitment to principles of open > government as the country officially joined the OGP last week. > > > http://www.kormany.hu/en/ministry-of-public-administration-and-justice/news/hungary-joins-the-open-government-partnership > > > http://www.transparency.hu/What_does_open_government_and_partnership_mean_to_the_Hungarian_government_?bind_info=index&bind_id=0 > > > Best regards > > > > Ádám Földes > > www.transparency.org > > Transparency International e.V. | Alt-Moabit 96, 10559 Berlin | 95VR13598 > B Amtsgericht Berlin, Charlottenburg | > Geschaeftsfuehrer: Cobus de Swardt | T +49 30 343820-0 | F +49 30 > 343820-0 | E i...@transparency.org > > This email is confidential and intended for the addressee only. If you are > not the intended recipient, any use, disclosure, distribution, printing or > copying of this email is unauthorised. If you have received this email in > error, please immediately notify the sender by replying to the email, then > delete all copies from your computer. Statements and opinions contained in > this email are those of the sender, not necessarily of Transparency > International. >
