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Ratification of the Tromsø Convention by Serbia essential for better access to official documents, say participants of event in Belgrade
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A culture of transparency and openness in the public administration is essential for asserting the legitimacy of the authority as a public service and it is developing a relationship of trust between authorities and citizens and monitoring risks of corruption. The Council of Europeâs Tromsø Convention on Access to Official Documents promotes these principles and the ratification of this Convention by Serbia is essential.
By Nora Wolf
MAR 13, 2021
Building on the tasteful piece written recently by Commissioner Dunja Mijatovic, this article will endeavour to explore further why the Tromsø
Convention (Norwegian International Convention on Access to Official Documents) [1] , although adopted more than a decade ago, is in fact deserving of much more credit and fuss than it appears to have mustered so far.
To briefly catch everyone up, the Council of Europe (CoE) adopted in 2009 a Convention on Access to Official Documents foreseeing a general and minimal right for all to access public authorities’ official documents. Having entered into force last December, this convention pioneers a uniformed standardised right to obtain official documents and thereby information from official sources. Evidently, the treaty draws on the pillar values of any and all healthy democracies that are transparency, pluralism and self-development of the individuals making up our civil societies.