TIRANA, June 26 /ATA/ – The Minister of State for the Public Administration Adea Pirdeni stated Wednesday that 222 public authorities implement the transparency and accountability program.
Addressing the VI National Conference on the Right to Information, State Minister noted that the legal framework was adapted to the reality needs in line with the best international practices in 2023.
“This year marks a decade since the Law on the right to information was adopted and the start of a process of understanding, accepting and implementing a new, more effective and faster approach to transparency. Over the years, the number of public authorities legally obliged to implement the transparency and accountability program was increased to 332 in 2023 from 145 in 2015. In 2018, a central register of requests and responses was made available and it is now functioning at 222 public authorities, establishing a capillary system of information provision,” she said.
Pirdeni underlined that Albania made another quality step forward in 2023, when the law on open data and the reuse of public sector information was approved to make available to the public a wide collection of information from various sectors via the opendata.gov.al website and that that the public can access information on health, education and the state budget.
However, Pirdeni underlined the need to avoid unnecessary issues concerning the transparency and information to the public, saying withholding information from the public would erode public trust and image of public officials.
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