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EU: The European Union and State Secrets: a fully evolving institutional framework…in the wrong direction (2)

14 February 2015

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"In a passionate intervention before the Civil Liberties Committee of the European Parliament (LIBE) on January 8 the European Ombudsman has denounced the fact that: “For the first time in its twenty year history, the European Ombudsman was denied its right under Statute to inspect an EU institution document, even under the guarantee of full confidentiality, as part of an inquiry… This power to inspect documents is fundamental to the democratic scrutiny role of the Ombudsman and acts as a guarantor of certain fundamental rights to the EU citizen.”

The case concerned Europol’s refusal to give access to a Joint Surpervisory Body (JSB) report on the implementation of the EU-US Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP) Agreement (known as “SWIFT” agreement)."

See the full text: The European Union and State Secrets: a fully evolving institutional framework…in the wrong direction (2) (ASFJ, link)

And see: Ombudsman's speech: Europol-TFTP (pdf)

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