Roger Vleugels heeft zijn nieuwe overzicht van Wob-wetgeving in de wereld:
- 88 countries do have a FOIA in power
– 7 more than in last years update:
El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guinea-Conakry, Liberia,
Niger, Nigeria, Tunesia
- Country 89 – Malysia
– In the section with the sub-national FOIAs a lot of improve-
ments among them the FOIA of Selangor, a state of Malysia
which itself has no FOIA in power
- Africa is catching up – Europe: a stand still
– Most of the new countries are African ones
– The black spots in Europe [Luxembourg, Malta, Spain and
some smaller entities] remain black, although there are
some hopeful signs in Spain
- 100 FOIA countries wthin 2-3 years
– about a dozen countries do have a serious draft or even
an already adopted/approved FOI law, see the B section,
so it is safe to say that within 2-3 years in 100 countries
FOIAs will be in power
- Positive and negative
Several countries are moved from the C to the B section
and some are downgraded from the B to the C section
- Extra remarks
- There are more FOIA lists; in my overview the date on which a
FOIA comes into power is the decisive one, Other dates like the
one for approval or adoption are also mentioned in my overview
– This update has more than 250 improvements
– Please feel free to mail me corrections.
– Please mail me information on FOI request volumes, see bottom
of page 2 and page 13-14-15.
– More information on the journals I publish, page 30-31
– Next years update will be published mid september 2012
