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The Information Meetings of the Agency with the Mayors are concluded
15/10/2020
With the support of the OSCE, the Information and Privacy Agency organized four meetings with the mayors of all Kosovo municipalities to provide essential information about their responsibilities in implementing the Law on Access to Public Documents.
Thanks to the new mandate given to the AIP to oversee the practical implementation of the Law on Access to Public Documents by public institutions, supported by the OSCE, the Agency convened the mayors of all municipalities in four separate meetings. This cycle of informative and awareness-raising meetings started on October 6 in Prishtina and ended today, October 15 in Prizren.
Such a campaign, dedicated to the level of officials for access to public documents of public institutions was launched in the first months of this year, to inform them closely about the changes of this law, the competencies and the new mechanisms of the Agency in this endeavor, while the organizing October roundtables was dedicated exclusively to the mayors, whose position, according to the Law on Access to Public Documents, have the responsibilities to decide on the requests of citizens to access public documents that these local government institutions produce.
In order to bring to the guests the innovations of the new law that guarantees the freedom of information and to reveal to them the obligations and responsibilities that belong to the mayors, the Agency had engaged Mr. Jeton Arifi, Director of the Department of International Relations, to lead these roundtables and provide information and advice to those present regarding the most effective implementation of this law.
The first two roundtables were held in Pristina, one of which was dedicated to the representatives of Serbian municipalities, while the third in Peja and the last one in Prizren.
The meetings were characterized by a lot of interaction among participants and the representatives of the Agency, who highlighted their concerns and difficulties during the implementation of this law, but also requested additional clarifications through their questions to Mr. Arifi.
With the support of the OSCE, the Information and Privacy Agency organized four meetings with the mayors of all Kosovo municipalities to provide essential information about their responsibilities in implementing the Law on Access to Public Documents.
Thanks to the new mandate given to the AIP to oversee the practical implementation of the Law on Access to Public Documents by public institutions, supported by the OSCE, the Agency convened the mayors of all municipalities in four separate meetings. This cycle of informative and awareness-raising meetings started on October 6 in Prishtina and ended today, October 15 in Prizren.
Such a campaign, dedicated to the level of officials for access to public documents of public institutions was launched in the first months of this year, to inform them closely about the changes of this law, the competencies and the new mechanisms of the Agency in this endeavor, while the organizing October roundtables was dedicated exclusively to the mayors, whose position, according to the Law on Access to Public Documents, have the responsibilities to decide on the requests of citizens to access public documents that these local government institutions produce.
In order to bring to the guests the innovations of the new law that guarantees the freedom of information and to reveal to them the obligations and responsibilities that belong to the mayors, the Agency had engaged Mr. Jeton Arifi, Director of the Department of International Relations, to lead these roundtables and provide information and advice to those present regarding the most effective implementation of this law.
The first two roundtables were held in Pristina, one of which was dedicated to the representatives of Serbian municipalities, while the third in Peja and the last one in Prizren.
The meetings were characterized by a lot of interaction among participants and the representatives of the Agency, who highlighted their concerns and difficulties during the implementation of this law, but also requested additional clarifications through their questions to Mr. Arifi.
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