In one year since the implementation of the Public Sector Access to Information Legislation, training seminars were held for public authority officials, Guidelines were issued, 226 Publication Plans were approved, 25 complaints were submitted, 29 written questions were answered and 5 final Decisions were issued, while a large number of telephone enquiries were answered, according to a statement by Information Commissioner Irene Loizidou-Nikolaidou.
A relevant statement said that the Right of Access to Public Sector Information Law 184(I)/2017, which entered into force on 22 December 2020, was enacted, on the one hand, to enable citizens to obtain general information concerning the Public and Wider Public Sector and, on the other hand, to be able to exercise control over acts of the Administration.
This Law creates an opportunity for the public to have access to information and to exercise control.
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