At the end of last year, the Parliament adopted the Law on Free Access to Information, which caused strong public reactions due to the introduction of an obligation for citizens to bear part of the costs of administrative proceedings - even in cases where it is proven that an institution has unlawfully withheld information of public importance from them.
Critics warn that this will discourage citizens, the media, and non-governmental organizations from seeking access to information, and encourage institutions to deny it.
The civil sector announces that it will challenge the constitutionality of the solution before the Constitutional Court, which, they claim, threatens citizens' right to information from the institutions they fund.
Although the law introduces a broader scope of information for publication and removes "business secrets" as a limiting factor for access to information, they believe that such a solution will encourage institutions to continue to withhold it.
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