The Right to Know Day is observed on 28 September.
As part of a GONG survey in 2011, 63 volunteers sent requests to public and state agencies for some information and 50 per cent of requests were answered on time, which was an improvement on the previous year, Zelic said.
The findings of the survey show that government ministries rarely disclosed drafts of bills in the process of adoption. Merely 17.9 per cent of all draft bills were posted on the web sites of the ministries, and invitations for public discussion accompanied only 6.17 per cent of the drafts, which Zelic described as a mild headway from 2010.
Zelic said that GONG had asked the government for copies of documents containing Croatia's obligations as agreed during its European Union accession negotiations and the answer was that the request related to sizeable documentation impossible to be abridged as it was about the commitments stemming from the entire EU acquis communautaire.
"Should we send them a truck?" Zelic retorted today in a comment on that answer.
Public Administration Minister Davorin Mlakar said that one should wait for the publication of Croatia's EU accession treaty, the English-version draft of which was presented to Prime Minister Kosor last Saturday.
"This is the most important document which our country is going to sign, and linguists and legal experts should be given some time to translate the text of the treaty in which every word and comma are important," Minister Mlakar said.
Mlakar said that in 2010 as many as 12,034 queries and requests for information from citizens had been sent to the public authorities and that more than 90 per cent of them had been dealt with.