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STATEWATCH: ACCESS TO EU DOCUMENTS: Calling the agencies to account: Frontex, Europol & Eurojust: Statewatch complaints & Ombudsman's own initiative Inquiry

30 March 2014

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  • Frontex given until end of March 2014 to comply with the Ombudsman's Recommendations to change its Management Board Decision putting into effect the Regulation on public access to EU documents
  • Eurojust seeks to avoid any compliance until some undefined point in the future
  • Europol meets four Ombudsman Recommendations - but the launch of its public register of documents "planned for completion by the end of 2013" is overdue"

    Tony Bunyan, Statewatch Director, comments:

    "Access to documents is the lifeblood of accountability and democratic standards so why has it taken nine, seven and ten years respectively for these Agencies to start coming into line with EU law on public access to documents? Who is responsible for the failure to ensure compliance with EU law? Is it the European Commission which, since December 2009, has been charged under Article 17 of the Lisbon Treaty with ensuring the application of EU law?

    It is high-time that these three agencies were made fully accountable to EU law and to the public by adopting and fully implementing the right of access to documents. I look forward to the Ombudsman re-visiting these complaints."

    See: Calling the agencies to account: Frontex, Europol & Eurojust: Statewatch complaints & Ombudsman's own initiative Inquiry

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