Postępowanie w sprawie bezczynności w zakresie udzielenia informacji publicznej w orzecznictwie sadów administracyjnych

• Authors: Przemysław Szustakiewicz

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PROCEEDINGS OF INACTIVITY FOR THE GRANT OF PUBLIC INFORMATION IN THE JURISPRUDENCE OF ADMINISTRATIVE COURTS

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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Written in the art. 61 of the Polish Constitution citizens’ right to access to public information is an important guarantor of physical functioning democracy, as the political system. The law was implemented in the Act of 6 September 2001 on access to public information. The right of access to public information law would be dead if the entities required to provide it, could not provide the public information without incurring legal liability. The means of protection in such circumstances is the applicant’s complaint for failure to act. In the light of the jurisprudence of administrative courts can be said that failure to act for the grant of public information can occur in three ways: • entity required to provide public information does not respond to the request; • entity required to provide public information exceeds deadline specified in the Act on Access to Public Information; • entity required provides information, but other than that for which the applicant expects or provides evasive information. The jurisprudence of administrative courts thoroughly investigates complaints against the inactivity of the entities required to provide public information. Such proceedings shall be made directly to the court. The courts are not lenient for public administrations, which do not provide information, but do not expand the right to information beyond what the legislature guaranteed in the Constitution and the law on access to public information. Therefore it is not in inactivity the entity that does not answer the question unrelated to public information. The Supreme Administrative Court (NSA) shall ensure that the jurisprudence of provincial administrative courts in this regard are consistent and clear, so that their content is understood by the parties. Thus, the NSA has repeatedly evaded the jurisprudence of provincial administrative courts because of their ambiguity or excessive brevity.

Keywords

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right to access to public information; administrative courts; failure to act for the grant of public information

• Publisher: LexisNexis Polska Sp. z o.o., Warsaw, Poland
• Journal: Przegląd Prawa Publicznego
• Year: 2012
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 74-83

Contributors

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Przemysław Szustakiewicz

• Uczelnia Łazarskiego, Wydział Prawa i Administracji, Katedra Prawa Administracyjnego, 02-662 Warszawa, ul. Świeradowska 43