Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - An alliance of civil society organizations in the southwest insists on a state-wide transparency register for all authorities and administrations. In essence, it is about: Citizens should no longer chase after the authorities and have to laboriously make individual inquiries; instead, the state associations of Mehr Demokratie, Transparency Deutschland, NABU, Fragdenstaat and Netzwerk Recherche called for “automatic publication of all relevant official information on the Internet”. Wednesday in Stuttgart. According to the current legal status, citizens and environmental and consumer protection organizations are petitioners and "their questions often get stuck in the cumbersome network of authorities".
The green-black state government must therefore implement its promise from the coalition agreement and quickly get a transparency law on the way, says NABU state chairman Johannes Enssle on behalf of the five associations. So far, however, a planned working group has not even been set up, according to the criticism.
