Analytical note on comparative legislation on ensuring the rights of journalists, media workers and representatives of NGOʼs to attend meetings of parliamentary committees

Abstract. The analytical note highlights international standards and recommendations of international organisations on ensuring the human right to information, access to information, the right to personal data protection, democratic principles of public authorities, building an information society and developing e-democracy in the context of the implementation of the Law of Ukraine ‘On Amendments to Certain Laws of Ukraine on Strengthening Certain Guarantees of Media and Journalists’ Activities and Ensuring the Right of Citizens to Access Information’. In this aspect, the study analyses provisions of foreign legislation on coverage of the activities of parliamentary committees, attendance of meetings of parliamentary committees (chambers of parliament) by journalists, media workers, and representatives of NGOʼs, including via video conferencing, and posting and storage of relevant information on official parliamentary websites on the Internet. The analytical basis for this study is the experience of parliaments of countries with high, relatively high and medium democracy indexes and the corresponding level of technological development: Poland, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, the USA, Israel, Germany, Norway, and the European Parliament.

Keywords: right to information, access to information, guarantees of media activity, journalists' rights, openness of the parliament, parliamentary committee, committee meetings, publicity in the work of parliamentary committees.

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03/2025