The right of access to information is one of the basic human rights and therefore has a significant impact on life of every human being, whereas it guarantees access to information which are in the hands of public authorities. This paper presents legal framework for the right of access to information, methods of its actualization, as well as its legal protection, with special accent to the right of access to information regarding enviornmental protection area, which presents extremely relevant special administrative area. Its importance manifests in numerous efforts on global level to ensure environmental protection, prescribing rigid requirements whose purpose is to decrease and prevent environmental pollution, to ensure the protection of all environmental components and to eliminate existent consenquences of pollution and contamination. Thereby, this paper dedicates special attention to the methods of actualization the right of access to information regarding environment in accordance with the Environmental Protection Act, especially the public right to participate in the decision making procedures that have or could have an impact to environment. In conclusion, the statistics information about executing the regulation on the right of access to information, with particular regard to environmental information, is elaborated.