62 Riinvest, 2013. Transparency: Mapping of Open Government
Policies in South East Europe, the case of Kosovo
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63 See Article 12 of the Kosovo Law No.03/L-215.
investments during last three years. The govern-
ment of Kosovo has kept the contract away from the
public eye and has not granted access to all parts
of the contract when requested by civil society or
media. The contract was only revealed by opposi-
tion parties who got access on the contract through
their own channels. This then created some uncer-
tainty in the public as the revealed information was
not considered to be true by the government offi-
cials. The other important file kept away from the
public view is the KEDS privatization dossier. Pre-
potr (2013) reports that all attempts of the Consor-
tium of Civil Society for Sustainable Development
(KOSID) to have access to the privatization dossier
turned out negative.
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Even though public officials
are covered by Law in regard to rejecting access to
some particular information demanded by citizens,
not granting access to information on finance and
other technical issues related to public investments
and privatization details related to public assets
raises suspicions about corruption.
As access to public documents is one of the key
criteria in measuring transparency of institutions,
Kosovo Government should also be transparent
in providing citizens with the information on how
many cases and on what basis access to public
documents was rejected. There are lot of contra-
dictions between Kosovo Government statistics
and reports of civil society and other independent
organizations.
According to the Kosovo Government report on
the implementation of the right on access to pub-
lic documents, around 80% of requests to access
public documents have been granted (Comprehen-
sive Report, 2012).65 The same report indicates
that at the municipal level around 80% of requests
