Virtual Meeting of the Scottish Public Information Forum (SPIF)on Thursday 24th September 2 - 3.30pm

1. Agenda

2. Welcome

3. Keynote speakers Toby Mendel and Laura Notess from the Centre for Law and Democracy 'COVID-19 and FoI Rights' - report on their COVID-19 tracker and the global response to RTK law including Scotland's. Questions

4. Dr David Goldberg ‘The Council of Europe’s Tromso Convention’, the first binding international legal instrument to recognise a general right of access to official documents held by public authorities. Questions

Break for 10 minutes

5. Minute and Matters arising from previous meeting

6. Report from Scottish Information Commissioner and Questions

7. Report from Scottish Government and Questions

8. Report on Post Legislative scrutiny of FoISA

9. Update from CFoIS including on human rights and EU Continuity Bill

10. Reports from other participants

11. Date of next meeting

12. Closing and Thanks

For more information visit the website of the Centre for Law and Democracy

CFoIS organsies SPIF for civil society, the public and private sectors.

Thanks to FPC This meeting of SPIF is hosted virtually by The Foreign Policy Centre (FPC), an outward-looking, non-partisan international affairs think tank. FPC’s mission is to provide an open and accessible space for the ideas, knowledge and experience of experts, academics and activists from across the world, so that their voices can be heard by a global audience of citizens and decision makers in order to find solutions to today’s international challenges. FPC website

About CFoIS The Campaign for Freedom of Information in Scotland (CFoIS) was established in 1984 to improve public access to official information, to secure legal right to access information and to enforce that right. The initiative came from the Scottish Consumer Council. We believe in the right of people to find out about how they are governed and how their services are delivered. CFoIS organises the twice yearly Scottish Public Information Forum. For further information go to CFoIS website info@cfois.scot @CFoIScot