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Non-corrupt and professional public administration — #60 Active online publication of information about functioning of the public administration on the internet

Public institutions shall actively publish a maximum amount of information (contracts, records of municipal assemblies) on the internet in a machine readable form. Thanks to this citizens do not have to file requests for information.

Justification and sources

Update history

date	reason	effectiveness	progression
02/2017 current	The amendment to the Act on free access to information, which entered into force in January 2017, foresees the publication of certain information by the public administration in the open data form. The scope of information concerning public administration published in the open data form is set out in the Government ordinance on list of information published in the open data form. This list, however, contains only eight information areas in which the relevant information should be published in the open data form.	Effectiveness 25%	Progression 90%	More
03/2016	The proposal of the Act on free access to information, which is in the Lower Chamber of the Parliament, foresees the publication of certain information by the public administration in the open data form. This obligation is, however, phrased in a very general way without specification of concrete areas.	Effectiveness 25%	Progression 60%	More
02/2016	The proposal of the Act on free access to information, which is in the Government, foresees the publication of certain information by the public administration in the open data form. This obligation is, however, phrased in a very general way without specification of concrete areas.	Effectiveness 25%	Progression 50%	More
01/2016	The proposal of the Act on free access to information prepared by the ministry of interior foresees the publication of certain information by the public administration for the purposes of economic welfare, better quality of life or increasing the effectiveness and the transparency of the public administration on the internet in a machine readable open data form. This obligation is, however, phrased in a very general way without specification of concrete areas.	Effectiveness 25%	Progression 40%	More
08/2015	Some central as well as local public institutions voluntarily publish information about its functioning online on the basis of the open data approach.	Effectiveness 0%	Progression 20%	More