Constitutional Court judges today did not discuss the contents of the amendments to the Access to Information Law but only the way in which those changes had been adopted. The Constitutional Court established that this was an organic (fundamental) law whose passage requires a majority vote, that is the support of a majority (77) of all deputies in the 153-seat Sabor.
The amended law was adopted with 73 votes in favour last December, and Constitutional Court judges today concluded that the law must be rescinded and that its application will cease on 17 July. In this way they gave enough time to the parliament to adopt the law with the required number of votes.
Constitutional Court judges stated that access to information legislation regulated one of the fundamental human rights: the right to have access to information and therefore this law should be treated as organic.
The government, which sponsored the amendments, also established this fact but it was the parliament which decided to treat the motion in a procedure in which it was sufficient to ensure a majority of votes of the MPs attending that session.