Interventions Together with other civil society organisations, we submitted comments on the draft law implementing the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA). Although some of the earlier proposals have been taken into account, the document fails to meet the standards arising from EU law in many key areas. The draft focuses primarily on the current model…

Interventions For several months, our organization has been actively advocating to ensure that the contract registers, which public institutions in Poland will soon be required to maintain, include information on all contracts they conclude. The government, however, proposed a bill introducing a publication threshold of 10,000 PLN, meaning that more than 70% of contracts concluded…

Interventions Central Register of Contracts For the past four years, we have been advocating for the law adopted by the Polish Parliament in 2021 — which requires all public institutions to maintain a central register of contracts — to become a real tool for overseeing public finances. In the meantime, another election has taken place…

Interventions Together with the Institute of Public Finance, we submitted a petition to the Chancellery of the Prime Minister regarding the Central Register of Contracts, which is to come into force in Poland in January 2026. The Central Register of Contracts (CRU) is an ICT system created for entities performing public tasks, whose purpose is…

It is with great sadness that we bid farewell to Zenon Michajłowski, one of the founders and members of the Watchdog Poland Civic Network. He was with us from the very beginning and remained actively interested and involved in transparency issues throughout his life. Few people in Poland can boast such a long and consistent…

  Interventions Together with other organizations, we appealed to, among others, the Speakers of the Sejm and Senate as well as parliamentary groups and circles, for the swift disclosure of information about the candidates for the position of President of the Supreme Audit Office (the highest state audit body in Poland) and for the organization…

Summary of the report The entire report is available at this link In 2024, we continued our intensive efforts to protect the right to information, strengthen transparency in public life and support civic engagement. One of the most important events was the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights, which found that the refusal…

In light of public statements by the European Commission and the latest EU Council meetings on 6 and 24 June 2025, civil society organisations have expressed their concerns about the growing pressure for a potential ‘stop the clock’ mechanism to suspend or delay the implementation and enforcement of the AI ​​Act. Attempts to delay the…

Madrid, 16 June 2025 – Access Info Europe today announces the launch of the Helen Darbishire Award which celebrates those who have used their right to information to have a positive impact on society. The Helen Darbishire Award (previously the Access Info Impact Award) recognises those who have significantly leveraged their right to information to…

Together with over 300 other organizations from across Europe, we have signed an open letter on the Hungarian draft law on “transparency in public life” addressed to the President of the European Commission and the Commissioner for Democracy, Justice, and the Rule of Law. The proposed law is yet another attempt to restrict freedom of…

The international community of civil society organizations working on the right to information has lost one of its most charismatic and key figures – Helen Darbishire. She passed away after several months of illness, fully aware that her time was coming, having said her goodbyes to family and friends. She knew that her life had…