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Success Story 42: Due to FOICA the Concept of the Struggle against Disinformation was Adopted

Thanks to two years of efforts of FOICA and active cooperation with partners, the Concept and the Action Plan of the Struggle against Disinformation 2024-2026 were adopted. The documents were developed by the Freedom of Information Center of Armenia.

Success Story 41: Thanks to the court case FOICA received the requested information

In January 2024, the "Civil Pact" party, after the FOICA appealed to the court, asked to sign a settlement agreement and provided the required information on pre-election fundraising.

Success Story 40: FOICA vs. 7 Municipalities, A 5-Year Judicial Marathon

This is the first court precedent in Armenia, which refers to proactive transparency; the local public authority was obliged to fulfill the duty established by the FOI law to ensure proactive transparency, based on a judicial act.

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Success Story 3։ Regular and Mandatory Disclosure of Information is Henceforth a Duty

November 5, 2008

Thanks to the initiative of the Freedom of Information Center and with the support of the RA Civil Service Council, from June 2008 the Identification Cards of information and public relations departments’ civil service employees of State Governing Bodies included the duty to publicize the information periodically and compulsory.

Besides, thanks to the FOICA, 46 questions on Freedom of Information and Mass Media legislations, as well as national and international legislations were included in the questionnaires to conduct tender and certifying interviews for state bodies’ employees of information and public relations subdivisions applying for chief, advanced and junior positions. Hence, the employees of information and public relations subdivisions should be strongly aware of the main principles of FOI legislation and their duties defined by law.

It should be noted that on April 17, 2008, by its N 302 decision the RA Civil Service Council included the training course “Freedom of Information and Public Relations in the system of management” in the training program of civil servants responsible for public relations (https://foi.am/en/news/item/101/).