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AIP Held the 13th Right to Know Day Awards Ceremony in Bulgaria 28.09.2015 Access to Information Programme held the 13th Right to Know Day Awards Ceremony on 28 September 2015. Nearly a hundred FOI activists from Sofia and the country gathered at the House of Europe in Sofia. The National Ombudsman, Mr. Konstantin Penchev, was a special guest. He addressed the audience, greeting the FOI advocates on the International Right to Know Day. Among the guests were the deputy minister of defense, partner NGOs, journalists, academia; officials from executive bodies and municipalities. Journalistic Investigations 201515.05.2015 In May 2015, journalists who have won the First AIP Competition for Journalistic Investigations finished their work. Within January to April 2015, nine awarded journalists from national and regional media prepared and published articles, series of articles, and a book in national and regional media, blogs, social media and on AIP specialized web site Access to Information and Journalistic Investigations: www.ati-journalists.net. The publications were based on information obtained using the APIA and public registers with the core help of the AIP legal team. The significance of the investigations was proven by dozens of reprints and thousands of readers. 2015 Active Transparency Rating in Bulgaria15.04.2015 On April 15, 2015, at a press conference in Sofia, the Access to Information Programme presented the results of its 2015 Audit on Institutional web sites in Bulgaria. The updated 2015 Active Transparency Rating and the 2015 Budget, Financial Transparency and Integrity of Municipalities Map were launched. In the lack of a public body to coordinate and control the implementation of the APIA, including the obligations for proactive publication of information, the AIP Audit serves as a model publication scheme for public bodies to increase their active transparency. AIP Held a Meeting with the Journalists from its Coordinators' Network20.02.2015 On February 20, 2015 in Sofia, Access to Information Programme (AIP) held the annual meeting with the journalists of its country-wide coordinators' network. Concept on Amendments to the Access to Public Information Legislation15.01.2015 AIP prepared and published a Concept on Amendments to the Access to Public Information Legislation. The Concept aims to present a broad range of problems stemming from the Access to Public Information Act implementation practices and possible solutions for their overcoming |