Media forum on access to information

TIRANA, June 2 – The Albanian Media Institute held last week a media policy forum on international documents affecting media, which aims to brief journalists and editors with main documents, implementation, and consequences. Participants were briefed on the main international documents that cover access to information, such as Universal Declaration of Human Rights, European Convention of Human Rights, several declarations and recommendations of Council of Europe, UNESCO’s Bucharest Declaration, EU’s Data Protection Directive. They also became familiar with the main aspects of Albanian legislation on this area and discussed on the way the law is implemented, its main deficiencies and the recent attempts to amend the law in several aspects. (Tirana Times Staff)