[open-government] hungarian woes

Fri Apr 6 13:56:52 UTC 2012

hey,

a new law-proposal is causing some stirrup in hungary:
> A draft bill on the re-use of public sector information submitted to the
> Hungarian Parliament by the government of the country makes national FOI
> legislation highly unpredictable - according to HCLU and K-Monitor, major
> Hungarian NGOs working for transparency and freedom of information. The bill
> intends to harmonize Hungarian PSI legislation on grounds of the 2003/98/EC
> Directive on the re-use of public sector information, a directive soon to be
> revised due to a proposal of the European Commission. HCLU and K-Monitor ask
> legislative authorities to withdraw their draft proposal due to the
> following reasons.
http://kmonitor.hu/hirek/magyar-hirek/profit-making-through-foi

also from the official journal, apparently the government wants to join this:
http://www.opengovpartnership.org/
does anyone have more info about this, is at least this reasonable?

thanks,s

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