A study pub- imposition of a fine by stating that writing lished in October 2022 found that the wording about Swedbank’s money laundering does of the Public Information Act encourages the not promote public debate.36 The decision was frivolous imposition of restrictions on access, criticised as a serious threat to the freedom since the wording of the law emphasises only of the press by the Estonia. [...] administrative court, the provisions were not sufficiently clear and did not define the limits • Keep strengthening the mandate and of the executive power.52 The provisions in increasing the resources of the Gender question authorised the Health Board, or in Equality and Equal Treatment Com- some cases the government, to take various missioner so that the institution is measures to prevent the spr. [...] For the first time, the expert committee However, the Supreme Court found that the included a wide range of stakeholders, such as provisions in question are not unconstitu- representatives of civil society organisations in tional, as the restriction of fundamental rights the field of equal treatment and gender equal- was proportionate to the goal of protecting ity, the Office of the Chancellor of. [...] This the legislature must create a balance in its is because the role of the Ministry of Social actions between the state’s duty to protect Affairs in the nomination of the Commissioner and the principle of reservation of law, which has been criticised as being a stain on its inde- in some cases may mean that more generally pendence. [...] The Court declared that by the Court of Justice of the European this sentence be retracted and removed from Union (CJEU) and by the Estonian Supreme the petition and that Kivisaar be compensated Court on the indiscriminate storage of com- in the amount of EUR 2,000.68 munications data have still not been properly addressed.
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