• Evaluating the overall efficiency of the Access to Information mechanism in the Baltic states, the analysis of empirical data has revealed that simple and problem-specific FOI appeal procedures, rather than professional privileges, determine the efficiency of the Access to Information mechanism. [...] Following the comparative analysis the Study discusses two aspects deter- mining the sustainability of social mission journalism: the efficiency of Ac- cess to Information mechanisms and the effects of refusals to provide the information on journalistic activities. [...] (2016) Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the Protection of Natural Persons with Regard to the Process- ing of Personal Data and on the Free Movement of Such Data, and Repealing Directive 95/46/ EC. [...] The Regulatory Environment section entails the presentation of context and a very brief descriptive comparison of the national access information regimes, including the appeal mechanisms (Details of the Regulatory environment are presented in the form of the table, Annex No. [...] Authors in Estonia also noted that the implementation of The Data Protection Law in many cases led to violations of the Right to Information.67 The latter trend is completely left out in the reports on the other two Baltic States, and, most likely, is the reason that led to such an unequal risk score among the three.
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