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EU: REGULATION ON ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS: Final "State of play" from Danish Council Presidency

26 June 2012

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Recast of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents (pdf).

Explains the Presidency perspective on the failed attempt to amend Regulation 1049. It presented an "adjusted" draft Council position but the "WPI [Working Party on Information] did however not share this assessment" "Some delegations" wanted to abandon the process, and "others" wanted a "limited package" covering the Arhus Convention, data protection, information officers and "improving" access to legislative documents "based on the Commission 2008 proposal.

The EU institutions are left with the dilemma of implementing the Commission's 2011 proposal to "Lisbonise" the Regulation by formally extending the scope of the Regulation to cover EU agencies and bodies but even this is contentious, see: Statewatch Analyses:

- Proposed Commission changes to Regulation on access to documents fail to meet Lisbon Treaty commitments (pdf)
- Secret trilogues and the democratic deficit (pdf)

See: Statewatch's Observatory: Regulation on access to EU documents: 2008-ongoing

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