This article deals with the right to freedom of information, its protection under international standarts and national legislation. The right to freedom of information has its par- ticular space among basic human rights and freedoms. Central to the guarantee in practice of a free flow of information and ideas is the principle that public bodies hold information not for themselves but on behalf of the public. This right creates opportunity for the citizen to be informed about his/her other rights, to enjoy them and to be able to protect them, as well as to follow the activities of the state and local municipality bodies, the measures of these authorities in the direction of priority and fateful issues and to hold all kind of information regarding these
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