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EU: Access to documents: Commissioner Wallströms hits back at critics: "They can’t have read the text"

01 June 2008

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Report by Staffan Dahllöf (Wobbing. link)

Tony Bunyan, Statewatch editor, comments:

"The idea that Statewatch, and Steve Peers who represented us at the hearing in the European Parliament on 2 June, had not read the text is sheer nonsense. We have worked on access to EU documents for over 15 years and we know how the current definition of a "document" works in practice - and it works fine. The only institution which does not like the definition is the Commission. In response to Statewatch's complaint to the European Ombudsman, over its failure to put all its documents on its public register, the Commission President repeatedly rejected the definition of a document in the Regulation as being too wide".

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