The Constitution of the Republic of Croatia and the Right to Access to Information

U ovom radu pisala sam o pravu na pristup informacijama u Republici Hrvatskoj. Rad započinje kratkim povijesnim prikazom prava na pristup informacijama u Europi i svijetu. U prvom dijelu rada, pisala sam o ostvarivanju prava na pristup informacijama, njegovom zakonskom uređenju te izmjenama Zakona o pravu na pristup informacijama koji je na snagu stupio 2003. godine. Razrađeni su temeljni zakonski pojmovi, a posebno sam se osvrnula na test razmjernosti i javnog interesa koji je uveden izmjenama Zakona iz 2011. godine te na Povjerenika za informiranje koji je kao drugostupanjsko tijelo uveden u naš pravni sustav 2013. godine. Najvažniji izvor prava na pristup informacijama u Republici Hrvatskoj je Ustav Republike Hrvatske. Pravo na pristup informacijama svima je zajamčeno člankom 38. stavkom 4. Ustava Republike Hrvatske. Razrađeno je načelo razmjernosti koje propisuje u kojim se to slučajevima predmetno pravo može ograničiti. U drugom dijelu rada analizirana je praksa Ustavnog suda Republike Hrvatske u tri predmeta koje je ustavnom tužbom pokrenula udruga GONG te jedan predmet koji je ustavnom tužbom pokrenuo Vladimir Šeks. Zaključno, rad sadrži podatke iz istraživanja o otvorenosti Hrvatskog sabora iz 2021. godine te osvrt na ostvarivanje prava na pristup informacijama u Republici Hrvatskoj.
In this paper I wrote about the right to access to information in the Republic of Croatia. The paper begins with a brief historical overview of the right to access to information in Europe and in the world. In the first part of the paper, I wrote about the exercise of the right to access to information, its legal regulation and changes to the Act on the Right to Access to Information, which entered into force in 2003. The basic legal terms were elaborated, and I particularly referred to the proportionality and public interest test, which was introduced by the amendments to the Act from 2011, and to the Information Commissioner, who was introduced as a second instance body into our legal system in 2013. The most important source of the right to access information in the Republic of Croatia is the Constitution of the Republic of Croatia. The right to access information is guaranteed to everyone by Article 38, Paragraph 4 of the Constitution of the Republic of Croatia. The principle of proportionality has been elaborated, which prescribes in which cases the respective right can be limited. In the second part, the practice of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia was analyzed in three cases filed by the GONG association and one case filed by Vladimir Šeks. In conclusion, the paper contains the data from research on the openness of the Croatian Parliament from 2021 and a review of the exercise of the right to access to information in the Republic of Croatia.