CENTRAL CATALOGUE OF OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS OF THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA Tamara Horvat, PhD and Renata Pekorari Digital Information Documentation Office of the Government of the Republic of Croatia, Zagreb Round table THE PUBLIC SECTOR INFORMATION: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES Zagreb, November 25, 2014
Digital Information Documentation Office Ø service of the Government of the Republic of Croatia authorised for information and documentation affairs Ø provides permanent access to official documents and information of the Republic of Croatia for the purpose of their permanent availability and re- use of information to all interested users Ø on equal conditions Ø non- partisan Ø free of charge
The Right of Access to Information - Proactive Disclosure Ø The Law on the Right of Access to Information (NN 025/13), in further text the Law Ø The By- law on Central Catalogue of Official Documents of the Republic of Croatia (NN 083/14), in further text the By- law Creation and realisation in accordance with the Action Plan for Implementation of the Initiative Open Government Partnership in the Republic of Croatia for the Period 2014 to 2016 July
The Law on the Right of Access to Information Methods of exercising the right of access to information Article 17 Public authorities shall enable access to information by: 1) publishing information on their work in a timely, appropriate and accessible manner in and the Central Catalogue of Official Documents of the Republic of Croatia, for the purpose of informing the public [proactive disclosure, administrative transparency]
Central Catalogue of Official Documents definition According to Article 5 of the Law: Central Catalogue of Official Documents of the Republic of Croatia shall mean the online tool enabling the users to have permanent access to the documents stored in the electronic document database and/or physical collections, through a full text and/or an arranged group of metadata;
Central Catalogue of Official Documents why? Central Catalogue of Official Documents enables: Ø permanent Ø costless and Ø free access to information from one point for all interested users!
Central Catalogue of Official Documents why? Ø permanent access, no ma[er the changes on web sites of individual public authorities Ø all official documents which are processed according to international bibliographic description standards Ø use of = as a guarantee of faster and more accurate information retrieval in multilingual environment of EU Ø unique search engine = easier search according different criteria Ø incorporation in
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Central Catalogue of Official Documents who, when and how is obliged to submit documents?? Ø public authorities Ø in 5 days from making a document or its publication on the Internet Ø in electronic form
Central Catalogue of Official Documents - what are public authorities obliged to submit? According to the Article 8 of the By- law (in accordance with the Article 10, paragraph 2 of the Law): 1. Laws and other regulations relating to their scope of work; 2. General enactments and decisions adopted by them and which affect the interests of beneficiaries, together with the reasons for their adoption 3. Draft acts and other regulations, as well as general enactment adopted by them, in respect of which public consultations with the interested public are conducted
Central Catalogue of Official Documents - what are public authorities obliged to submit? According to the Article 8 of the By- law (in accordance with the Article 10, paragraph 2 of the Law) cont.: 4. Annual plans, programmes, strategies, instructions, work reports, financial reports and other appropriate documents relating to the scope of work of the public authorities.
Central Catalogue of Official Documents - where to find it? Documents submi[ed to Central Catalogue are accessible on the Digital Office portal: www.digured.hr
Central Catalogue of Official Documents On one point there is online access to the official documents full texts and other information about them:
Central Catalogue of Official Documents On one point there is online access to the official documents full texts and other information about them:
Central Catalogue of Official Documents On one point there is online access to the official documents full texts and other information about them:
Digital Office portal using The Legislation e- Collection is the most used among all other documents offered on the portal. The Legislation e- Collection was searched: in 2011 by 311 605 visitors, in 2012 by 350 000 visitors, and in 2013 by 470 433 visitors. In 2013, 2 137 893 pages were browsed by the visitors, what is increase of 21,23 % in relation to previous year. In 2013 the number of visits increased 40 % in relation to 2011.
Importance of promotion and training! In accordance with the Action Plan for Implementation of the Initiative Open Government Partnership in the Republic of Croatia for the Period 2014 to 2016 July programmes on Ø right of access to information and its exercising via Central Catalogue, the Digital Office portal content and information searching options, public authorities obligations of documents submission to Central Catalogue...
for Importance of promotion and training! Ø civil servants, Ø administrators, and Ø interested public classical and online performance (...webinars) Digital Office by itself and in companionship with the Commissioner and with the National School for Public Administration number of a[endants in 2013 increased 66,5 % in relation to 2012
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