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EU: ‘Inside’ the European Parliament’s Closed Reading Rooms: Transparency in the EU

30 September 2016

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"What do documents about negotiations of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), oversight of the EU’s Food Safety Authority or Tax-Justice have in common? In order to access these documents, (selected) Members of the European Parliament are requested to attend closed reading rooms. This blog post discusses how an exception to open parliamentary oversight is increasingly becoming a regular institutional practice and questions its spillover effect on requests for public access to documents."

See the full text: ‘Inside’ the European Parliament’s Closed Reading Rooms: Transparency in the EU (EU Law Analysis, link)

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