In an effort to strengthen transparent governance and safeguard the right of access to information, the Council of Europe's Division for Cooperation on Freedom of Expression organised in partnership with the CDAI Morocco's Commission for the Right of Access to Information a regional conference on "Euro-Mediterranean Approaches on Access to Information" held in Rabat on 22 April 2024.

Bringing together a high number of institutional representatives on Access to Information from Morocco, Tunisia, Lebanon, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Serbia, North Macedonia and Georgia, the conference facilitated the dialogue through the sharing of good practices and knowledge about the standards of the Council of Europe, and in particular the Convention on Access to Official Documents (Tromsø Convention).

The participants engaged in fruitful discussion on case studies and peer-to-peer exchanges with the Council of Europe experts providing recommendations for the establishment of a benchmark on self-assessment indicators performance in the field of the access to information and valuable insights of the improvement of the mechanisms and tools in the South Mediterranean region (Morocco, Tunisia and Lebanon) and in European States.

The regional event held in the context of the Project "Freedom of Expression, Media Pluralism, and Access to Information (SPV-FREXPLUME)", component of the South Programme V, a joint initiative between the European Union and the Council of Europe.

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