Openness of activities of executive bodies
of units of local and regional government
– selected problems
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Wyższa Szkoła Gospodarki Euroregionalnej
im. Alcide De Gasperi w Józefowie
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Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
Wydział Prawa i Administracji
Katedra Prawa Konstytucyjnego
Publication date: 2016-12-31
JoMS 2016;31(4):395-414
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ABSTRACT
The article contains a brief discussion of the problem of openness of activities of
executive bodies of local and regional government on the commune/municipality,
district, and province level. After a brief introduction, the authors analyzed the constitutional
and statutory conditions for access to public information and the nature
of openness of activities of public authorities. The authors discussed not only on the
key constitutional provisions but also selected articles of the Act on access to public
information in the context of the openness principle. The next part of the article discusses
the problem of public information in the practical activities of district heads,
district management boards, and province management boards. Of course, openness
of activities of executive bodies is subject to numerous limitations; therefore, the analysis
that followed focused on the scope of openness of activities of executive bodies
of units of local and regional government. The scope of such activities is regulated
in detail in Art. 6 of the Act on access to public information. In the conclusion, the
authors mentioned the few publications related to the problem of openness of activities
of executive bodies of units of local and regional government and the need for
analysis of many other issues related to this subject, which the authors were unable to
discuss due to the limited size of the article.