Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 16th NISPAcee Annual Conference Program Overview VII. Working Group on Public Sector Transparency Author(s) Erik Lastic Comenius University Bratislava Slovakia Title Open Government? Free Access to Information Law in Slovakia File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Abstract The proposed paper analyzes how Slovak Freedom of Information Act of 2000, as an legal policy instrument, implemented succesfully constitutional right to information as guaranteed in Slovak constitution and fundamentally changed relation between state and citizens, by guaranteeing citizens and legal entities broad access to information about public matters. The paper presents development stage of the law, its approval and implementation phase, with focusing dominantly on the implementation on a central level and the role of the judiciary in enforcement of the legislation