Working group of information officers in Germany
The working group of information officers in Germany (AGID) was until 12 December 2006, a merger of the Information Officer of the Federation and the countries in which to date already freedom of information laws went into effect. These were:
- the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (currently Peter Schaar ),
- the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (currently Alexander Dix ),
- the state commissioner for data protection and for the right to inspect files Brandenburg ( Dagmar Hartge ),
- the State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information North Rhine-Westphalia ( Bettina Sokol )
- the Independent State Center for Data Protection Schleswig-Holstein ( Thilo Weichert )
- the State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information for the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen ( Sven Holst ) and
- the State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ( Karsten Neumann ).
The AGID was founded in Kiel at the end of August 2000 and served the exchange of experience on the legal practice of the participating federal states as well as dealing with questions of freedom of information law at the federal and European level. The AGID could be seen as the freedom of information equivalent to the working groups of the conference of data protection officers of the federal and state governments. It usually met twice a year; the chair changed every six months.
The working group warned against circumventing the freedom of information laws by privatizing public tasks, called for the adaptation of freedom of information and archive laws (see for example Section 10 (1 ) BArchG ) and suggested that administrative regulations should also be published in principle.
On December 12, 2006, AGID was renamed the Conference of Freedom of Information Commissioners in Germany .