In the Republic of Armenia the monitoring process was lead by The Freedom of Information Center. A total of 100 requests were submitted to 18 bodies out of which 12 were State Government bodies, 3 local self-governing bodies and 3 Courts. At the time of Monitoring project in 2003, Armenia did not have a freedom of information law. The FOI law was adopted by the National Assembly on September 23 when the Monitoring was already concluded. The results of this Monitoring underscore the need to the government to take the new law seriously and to implement it in line with international standards if democratic transparency of the administrative structures of the Republic of Armenia is to be achieved.