The regulatory and legal framework of information security and right to access information in Government, Local Government and Public Services

Development of successful model of Government, Local Government and Public Services (GLGPS) in Croatia is based on the development of regulatory and legal framework to protect the rights of access to information. Nowadays, information security is becoming the most important issue in development of electronic administration. In this paper the authors will give an overview of the fundamentals of regulatory and legal framework of eGLGPS in order to explore the protection of the identity of citizens in the work of public services and their right to privacy. Also, in the context of information security, this paper analyzes the legal problems obligation of the tax secret in the tax procedures, the right to access tax information and exchange of information between the Croatian GLGPS and European Union Member States in the tax procedures‥