Inter-American MODEL LAW 2.0 on Access to Public Information

Sumario:

The General Assembly approved the Model Inter-American Law 2.0 on Access to Public Information in October 2020, during its 50th regular session, thus marking the 10th anniversary of the Model Inter-American Law on Access to Public Information of 2010. The Model Law 2.0 has been created in compliance with the mandate conferred to the DDI by the OAS General Assembly in 2017. In order to best comply with this mandate, the DDI undertook an intense process of consultations with guarantor bodies, legislators, academics, civil society and other social actors, with the support of the Red de Transparencia y Acceso a la Información (Transparency and Access to Information Network – RTA) and the European Union Cooperation Program with Latin America EUROsociAL +.

Said activities focused on the development of agreed upon texts on issues related to guarantor bodies, the exception regime, subject entities, active transparency, definitions and scope of the right of access to information. It is important to note that, throughout these works, the DDI ensured the incorporation of the gender perspective, recognizing the opportunity to propose texts that make Model Law 2.0 one of the first legal instruments of the Inter-American System to incorporate this perspective by design.