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EU: ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS: EU states object to transparency in law-making

01 June 2011

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EU: ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS:
"An EU source told EUobserver that potentially the positions of states on all subjects and discussions at the level of working group could be opened up for public scrutiny: "The decision-making process as established, the 'space to think' must be protected. This is what is at stake.... one source close the matter told EUobserver that a full 20 member states are backing the legal action."

Tony Bunyan, Statewatch Director, comments:

"The Council are trying to bully the European Court of Justice by weight of numbers to protect their so-called "space to think" because their argument is patent nonsense. The Council is a legislature together with the European Parliament when adopting EU measures - a "legislature" in a democracy worthy of the name cannot meet in secret. Yet this is the practice the Council wants to perpetuate."

See: Full-text of ECJ judgment (pdf) and The case for the repeal of Article 4.3

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