Free Access to Information
Standard 6. There is a designated supervisory authority overseeing the implementation of the legislation on public information with the power to set standards, make prescriptions and impose sanctions.
Indicator 3. In deciding an appeal, the independent oversight body has the power to order appropriate remedies for the requester, including the declassification of information.

Indicator 3. In deciding an appeal, the independent oversight body has the power to order appropriate remedies for the requester, including the declassification of information.

Independent oversight body has the power to order the public authority to enable access to information to the requester. If the requested information is classified, it has the power to order declassification or to directly declassify information.

Summary

The powers of the oversight body to order appropriate remedies for the requester is also regulated in different ways in the legislations of the analysed countries. The lack of power to order remedies stems both from the choice of the independent oversight body i.e. ombudsman in BiH, and the legislative inadequacies, in Montenegro.

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ALB BIH KOS MNE MKD