GONG past initiatives related to civil society and its development Strategy for Development of Civil Society Due to increased demands for development of civil society, it was necessary to create a Strategy for Civil Society Development. Therefore, the Government of Croatia has formed a working group to draft the document. GONGs’ representatives were invited to…
Month: October 2007
Croatian Parliament
During the 1990s the Croatian Parliament was closed to citizens, despite the fact that the Parliament is intended to represent the citizenry. GONG has therefore decided to open the Parliament through different projects and programs, which resulted in the implementation of our Parliament program and the Open Parliament project. During the 1990s the Croatian Parliament…
Croatian Government
GONG has written several complaints to the Government warning against the bad practice of publishing only the session agenda on their web site without publishing the actual materials which are to be decided upon during the session. GONG has written several complaints to the Government warning against the bad practice of publishing only the session…
Enforcement of the Freedom of Information Act
During autumn 2005, GONG has developed a methodology and an action plan in order to explore the enforcement of the right to information access. 22 citizen applicants were chosen as well as 105 public institutions to which requests for information were sent. During autumn 2005, GONG has developed a methodology and an action plan in…
Law on Data Secrecy and Law on Informational Security
During 2006 Croatian Office for National Security issued Dana Secrecy Act proposal which was adopted by Croatian Government and sent to parliamentary procedure. During 2006 Croatian Office for National Security issued Dana Secrecy Act proposal which was adopted by Croatian Government and sent to parliamentary procedure. GONG has protested against the proposal because of several…
Past initiatives
GONG previous initiatives related to transparent work of public institutions Transparency of local parliamentary assemblies (city, municipality and county councils/assemblies) In March 2001 GONG sent amendment to all parties relating the new Draft Law on Local and Regional Self-government and introduced with several MPs the amendment on public presence at local parliamentary assemblies’ sessions. Unfortunately,…