6. January 2005.

Dear Mr Keim,

thanks a lot for your e-mail regarding freedom of information (FOI) in Germany.

The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media is monitoring the situation of media in all 55 OSCE participating States, including Germany.

One of the focuses of this Office for the upcoming year will be freedom of information and access to information. A first step in this direction has been made with the Joint Statement of the media rapporteurs of UN, OAS and OSCE, as you have mentioned in your mail.

As I understand there are at the moment discussions in German parliament to adopt a federal FOI law in Germany and respective legislation has also passed some of the "Laender" parliaments. Our Office welcomes every step into this direction.

For 2005 we will continue our work towards promoting the implementation of FOI laws in every OSCE participating State and hope to see further progress as we have seen already in 2004.

Sincerely,
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Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
Kaerntnerring 5-7, Top 14, 2. DG
A-1010 Vienna, Austria
Telephone +43 1 5 12 21 45-XX
Telefax +43 1 5 12 21 45-9
E-mail ...
www.osce.org/fom

Development:

• 30. May 2006: OSCE media watchdog to survey sanctions against press for publishing classified information or not revealing sources.
• 23. August 2006: Survey: Questionnaires available at the OSCE FOM website at: http://www.osce.org/item/19279.html 
• 15. September 2006: My answer to Questionnaire.
• Will German representatives for human rights support FOI? (Werden die Menschenrechtsbeauftragten der Bundesregierung die Arbeit an einer bindenden Konvention unterstützen?)
• Will the freedom of information and data commissioner support a convention? (Rat des Büro des Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Menschenrechtspolitik und Humanitäre Hilfe im Auswärtigen Amt vom 20.9.06 bezüglich Informationsfreiheit)
• 10. July 2006: Sdruženi Jihoceské Matky v. Czech Republic, Application no. 19101/03, Decision of  ECHR (Admissibility). Access to information. http://wkeim.bplaced.net/files/echr-19101-03.htm
• 19. September 2006: Inter-American Court of Human Rights: Claude v. Chile: Inter-American Court Confirms Right of Access to Government Information.
• 16. October 2006: Justice Initiative Intervenes in Strasbourg Freedom of Information Case: Application no. 11721/04. GERAGUYN KHORHURD PATGAMAVORAKAN AKUMB v. ARMENIA.
• 30. April 2007: Presentation, Summary of preliminary results of the survey, Country report (Walter Keim mentioned), Analysis
  
  

List of appendices:

>>> Postmaster FOM 10/12/2004 09:58:24 >>>

>>> "Walter Keim" <walter.keim@gmail.com> 09.12.04 16:11:57 >>>

----- Original Message -----
From: Walter Keim
To: pm-fom@osce.org
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Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 11:00 AM
Subject: Freedom of Information (Informationsfreiheitsgesetz)


Ähnlicher Stoff auf Deutsch: http://wkeim.bplaced.net/files/de_menschenrechte.htm

Walter Keim, E-mail: walter.keim@gmail.com
Torshaugv. 2 C
N-7020 Trondheim, 13. December 2004  

Miklos Haraszti
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
Kaerntner Ring 5-7, Top 14, 2.DG
A-1010, Vienna
Austria



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