Exercise of the Right to Access to Public Information: Administrative and Legal Mechanism

• Authors: Anton Chub

Abstracts

EN

The article considers the organizational and legal framework for ensuring the right of access to public information in Ukraine. The positive tendencies of legal support of realization of this public right of physical persons and shortcomings of the legal practice revealed in this sphere are defined. It was found that the object of influence of the administrative and legal mechanism to ensure the exercise of the right of access to public information is public relations in the field of satisfaction of the right of access to public information, by creating opportunities for free access to statistics, archives, libraries and museums. , other information banks, databases, information resources, information on the powers and activities of the subjects of power. Forms, methods and means of ensuring the right of access to the public are described. It was found that the purpose of the administrative and legal mechanism to ensure the exercise of the right of access to public information is to create conditions under which every individual can freely exercise the right of access to public information. The author’s definition of the key concept of a scientific article is offered.

Keywords

EN

mechanism; public authority; information; access; provision

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Krakowskie Studia Małopolskie
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 2(26)
• Pages: 9-30

Dates

published

2020

Contributors

author

Anton Chub

• Zaporizhia National University in Ukraine

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/ksm20200201

Biblioteka Nauki

1930506