Problems in application on free access to information

Problems in Applying the Free Access to Information Act1 By integration of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms into the "constitutional order"2 , the Czech Republic declared the acknowledgment of the principles of democratic legal state. Wording of the Charter is in accordance with the most relevant international documents on human rights, therefore it also anchors the right to freedom of expression, closely related to the right to information as the significant means of controlling public administration by engaged public. The diction of article 17 (5) shows that the change in the conception of public affairs administration occurred when the discrete administration was abandoned for the administration publicity principle which ought to be implemented with maximum of openness and transparency. The right to information has found its statutory expression in the Act on Free Access to Information that was passed in the year of 1999. The passivity of the Czech Republic government in regulating the field of providing information forced a group of senators to draft the bill that was finally passed as the mentioned act. The fact that the text of the law did not originate in the government, which has an extensive legislative apparatus at its disposal, is one of the circumstances causing that the..