Council of Europe urged to recognise broad right of access to information

Through this Briefing, ARTICLE 19 and the Open Society Justice Initiative, as organisations with observer status at the Council of Europe’s Group of Specialists on access to official documents (DH-S-AC), together with Access Info Europe, seek to make a constructive contribution to the process of drafting a binding treaty in the area of access to information. The Briefing consists of two parts, the second of which consists of a series comparative notes which detail how the access to information laws of 26 Council of Europe Member States tackle two key issues: the information covered by the national access laws and the public bodies covered by the these law.(Original source: http://www.access-info.org/data/File/CoE.FOI.06.pdf)