The Association for Participatory Democracy (ADEPT) formulated a series of recommendations for improving the legal framework on decisional transparency at state institutions. The proposals were presented in a news conference at IPN.

Experts of ADEPT consider it necessary to specify the areas that are not within the remit of the Law on Decisional Transparency. The legislation should be supplemented with provisions that would ensure the publication of draft decisions and related materials, including informative notes, on the websites of the public authorities.

The experts underlined the necessity of working out a method to inform the general public about the reasons why the consultations were dismissed as unnecessary. Another recommendation is to improve the control and punishment mechanism by specifying the violations and the imposed penalties.

According to ADEPT director Igor Botan, the national legal framework designed to ensure transparency in the decision-making process hasn’t advanced.

Proposals for improving it were formulated in the study “Decisional transparency in the work of the competent central public authorities” that was carried out within the project “Open Parliament and Government: strengthening transparency by public participation”. The project is implemented by ADEPT with financial support from the Embassy of the Netherlands.