The organs of the state authorities and other organizations and institutions, which are determined by law, organs of the municipalities, organs of the city of Skopje, organs of the municipalities of the city of Skopje, public institutions and services, public enterprises, legal and physical entities who perform public jurisdictions and services of public interest, established by law.
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Access to Information in the Republic of Macedonia: Between Transparency and Secrecy
Stojan Slaveski (Europian University, Macedonia) and Biljana Popovska (MoD, Macedonia)
Copyright: © 2016
|Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8793-6.ch008
Abstract
Certain information and personal data, held by the government, needs to be kept secret because its disclosure to the general public could jeopardize the operation of the state. On the other hand, the state should allow the public to have free access to all other state-held information. To ensure a balance between these two claims of modern democratic societies, there is a need to legally regulate this matter. The state should have a law on access to public information and a law that will regulate the classification, access to and storage of information which should be kept secret. This chapter analyzes the global experiences in regulating this matter, with a particular emphasis on the practice in the Republic of Macedonia.