The transparency act, which determines the conditions to access information about the management and usage of public money came into force on December 10. It contains the obligation for union and employers’ organizations to provide regular information about the quantity and usage of the public funds they receive in the form of subsidies or aid, and to publish agreements and contracts signed with entities financed by public money. This law arrives precisely as the country is shaken by a series of scandals over the misappropriation of public funds, including by trade unions, currently under investigation. (Ref. 130805)
The new “Act on transparency, access to public information and good governance” is finally coming into force after a long and tortuous path since the first draft was approved by the Council of Ministers in February 2012. The text was bitterly debated, extended, amended and criticized before finally going through Parliament on November 28.
Social pressure. Citizens’ demands and pressure following from social mobilization led to the extension of this law’s scope. Initially designed to open acce
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