Dear Roy and All:
Attached is a chart showing the budget, rough budget per capita, number of staff and salaries of info commissioners in the following countries: Macedonia, Hungary, Ireland, Serbia, UK - from Access Info Europe, posted at http://right2info.org/information-commission-ers-and-other-oversight/information-commission-ers-and-other-oversight/?searchterm=costs, Chart 6 Australia: Victoria, Queensland, Northern Territory, Tasmania Canada Mexico New Zealand Scotland Slovenia - from our own desk research (annual budgets etc), with assistance from some of you FOIAdvocates. We welcome updates and corrections to this info, and will post a revised version on right2info.org Thanks all, Sandy ________________________________ From: foianet-bounces at foiadvocates.info [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of tania sanchez Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 2:15 PM To: F?ldes ?d?m Cc: Foianet Subject: Re: [foianet] FOI commissione/Units - Human Resources and budget Dear Roy, There is this document commissioned by the World Bank Institute that fleshes out the costs involved in setting up such agency and system, for the case of Mexico. Find it attached, it is pretty detailed. Best, Tania S?nchez Andrade. On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:51 AM, F?ldes ?d?m <adam.foldes at transparency.hu> wrote: Dear Roy, I send you some statistics on the Hungarian DP&FOI Commissioner that I collected about a year ago. The Commissioner is responsible both for personal data protection and FOI and the emphasis of his work in the last 15 years has always been personal data protection. He receives lot more complaints in privacy issues than in FOI matters, but I can't tell you which is the cause and the effect. There is no separated budget for FOI in his office. Just to make the budgetary part more complicated he shares the overhead costs with three other ombudsmen as they're seated in the same building, but those costs are not included in the figures I attached. Best wishes, Adam legal officer Transparency International Hungary Tel: +36 1 269 9534 www.transparency.hu 2010.06.10. 12:13 keltez?ssel, Roy Peled ?rta: Dear Friends, I mentioned here in the past that we are negotiating with the government the creation of an FOI commission/central unit. I have a meeting this coming Monday with the person in charge of these discussions in the treasury. I have to convince them to allocate a significant budget (the current Justice Ministry proposal talks about $1million) and human resources (the current proposal is for 7 people at year 1 and 10 at year 2). For this I would be grateful for any data about the budget and composition of similar agencies in your country. Notice that we are talking about an FOI unit and not general Information comission/unit. So if you have an information commission in general (data protection), then it would be helpful if you have information on the specific budget of its FOI section. Thanks, Roy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.foiadvocates.info/private.cgi/foianet-foiadvocates.info/attachments/20100610/594ad4b2/attachment-0001.htm> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: budgets of ICOs+ JI 2009.doc Type: application/msword Size: 98816 bytes Desc: budgets of ICOs+ JI 2009.doc URL: <http://lists.foiadvocates.info/private.cgi/foianet-foiadvocates.info/attachments/20100610/594ad4b2/attachment-0001.doc>
