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Witajcie,<br>
<br>
w kontekście prac nad udip mogą Was zainteresować wyniki rankingu
Right to Information przygotowanego przez Access Info Europe.<br>
<br>
Pozdrowienia,<br>
<br>
Alek Tarkowski<br>
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<td>World's First Rating of Right to Information</td>
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<td>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 04:28:36 +0000</td>
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<td>Access Info Europe <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:helen@access-info.org"><helen@access-info.org></a></td>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0,
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Press Release</strong></span><br>
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:
10pt;">For immediate release</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(54, 95,
145);"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>World’s First
Rating of Right to Information: 89 Countries Ranked<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.rti-rating.org">www.rti-rating.org</a><br>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><em>28 September 2011,
Madrid/Halifax</em> - On International Right to Know Day,
two leading human rights organisations, Access Info Europe
(Spain) and the Centre for Law and Democracy (Canada), are
launching the first detailed analysis of the legal framework
for the right to information (RTI) in 89 countries around the
world.</span><br>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
style="color: rgb(54, 95, 145); font-size: 10pt;"
href="http://www.rti-rating.org">The RTI Rating</a> is based
on 61 Indicators drawn from a wide range of international
standards on the right to information, feedback from an
international Advisory Council of renowned experts on the
right to information and comparative study of numerous right
to information and related laws from around the world. </span><br>
<br>
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:
10pt;">The findings of the RTI Rating show that there is a
significant variety in the quality of the legal framework,
with scores out of a maximum possible 150 ranging from 37
(Germany) to 135 (Serbia). Some of the key results:</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; margin-left: 40px;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: rgb(54, 95, 145);">»
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">More recent laws
protect the right to know more strongly; of the 20 countries
with scores above 100, 11 adopted their RTI laws since 2005,
and 7 since 2000 – these laws tend to have much stronger
oversight, enforcement and promotion.</span><br>
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</span></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: rgb(54, 95, 145);">»
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Of the 20 countries
with scores above 100, 7 are in East and Central Europe, 5 in
Asia, 4 in the Americas, 3 in Africa and only one is in
Western Europe; </span> <br>
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style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: rgb(54, 95, 145);">»
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Europe overall
accounts for 15 of the bottom 20, primarily the older European
laws which are more limited in scope and have weaker appeals
mechanisms; </span> <br>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">“Effective protection of human
rights like the right to information requires a sound legal
basis,” </span></em><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">said
Toby Mendel, Executive Director of the Centre for Law and
Democracy.</span><em><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> “This
rating tool enables us to pinpoint areas of weakness in the
legal framework for RTI, and to direct future advocacy at
resolving these.” </span></em><br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The RTI Rating shows not only
a country’s overall score, but also but also its strengths and
weaknesses in relation to seven main categories: Right of
Access, Scope; Requesting Procedures; Exceptions and Refusals;
Appeals; Sanctions and Protections; and Promotional Measures.</span>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The score for the legal
framework did not always accord with overall levels of
transparency in a country in practice. Some national experts
who reviewed the AIE and CLD country assessments noted that is
sometimes a gap between the quality of the law and the
practice. In some northern European countries, the older legal
frameworks do not fully reflect the culture of transparency in
practice, whereas in countries like Azerbaijan, Nepal and
Ethiopia, strong laws on paper do not necessarily reflect a
fully open society; the strong laws in El Salvador and Liberia
were adopted too recently to assess the practice. </span><br>
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</span><em><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">“Testing of levels of transparency
in practice is essential to have a full picture,”</span></span></em><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
commented Helen Darbishire, Executive Director of Access Info
Europe. </span></span><em><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">“Adopting a law is only a first
step to transparency; without accurate measures of access to
information in practice, governments can participate in
‘transparency washing’ and claim greater respect for this
fundamental human right than is in fact the case.”</span></span></em><strong><br>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(54, 95, 145);"><strong><span
style="font-size: 10pt;" color:="">Note for editors</span></strong></span><span
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0,
0);">More information about the tools used in preparing
the RTI Rating, the Advisory Committee and the detailed
ratings for each country can be found at: <a
moz-do-not-send="true" style="color: rgb(54, 95, 145);
font-size: 10pt;" href="http://www.rti-rating.org">www.rti-rating.org</a>.<strong><br>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0,
0);"><strong> </strong></span><span style="color: rgb(0,
0, 0);">Access Info Europe and the Centre for Law and
Democracy remain open to comments and corrections to the
RTI Rating. We know that only through expert feedback will
we perfect this analysis. The following countries have not
yet had national reviewers and comments from experts
knowing about those countries would be particularly
welcome: Antigua and Barbuda, Austria, Bangladesh, Cook
Islands, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Estonia,
Greece, Guatemala, Guinea-Conakry, Iceland, Korea (South),
Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Montenegro, Nicaragua, Panama,
Poland, Portugal, Slovak Republic, St Vincent and the
Grenadines, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Trinidad and Tobago,
Tunisia and Turkey.</span></span><span style="color:
rgb(54, 95, 145);"><br>
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<p><span style="color: rgb(54, 95, 145);"><span style="font-size:
10pt;"><strong> For further information please contact:</strong></span></span><span
style="font-size: 10pt;"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span
style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong>Helen
Darbishire</strong>, Access Info Europe <br>
</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.access-info.org" target="_blank"
style="color: rgb(54, 95, 145); font-size: 10pt;">www.access-info.org</a>
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Email: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:helen@access-info.org" style="color: rgb(54,
95, 145); font-size: 10pt;">helen@access-info.org</a> | +34
667 685 319</span></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(54, 95, 145);"> <strong><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Michael Karanicolas</span></strong><span
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Democracy</span></span></span></span><br>
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