Bulgaria – Serbia. Access to Information Issues
Valery Roussanov (ed.)
ACCESS-Sofia Foundation, Sofia, 2003
ISBN: 954-600-022-1
(Language: English)

The book Bulgaria – Serbia. Access to Information Issues comes as a result of the Access to Information and Media Legislation cross-cutting project between SEENPM and BHRN, implemented jointly by ACCESS–Sofia Foundation and Belgrade Center for Human Rights.

The book is based on the papers and materials presented at the workshops held in Belgrade and Sofia. It aims at presenting different perspectives of the access to information issues in Bulgaria and Serbia. It tries to describe the present situation and to examine the difficulties and problems in the two countries as well as to offer practical advice for solution of these problems. The book also presents practical experience of people and organizations dealing with access to information issues and offers advisable strategies for the future to other groups of people dealing with the same problems of the access to information and media legislation in the region.

The book reviews the legal framework of access to information in Bulgaria and Serbia, examines the practical aspects of its implementation, and identifies some current problems. Special attention is paid to media legislation in the two countries. Contributors to this publication are experts in the field of law, media, human rights and political science, mainly from the NGO sector.