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2007-02-02 | permalink
EU considers overhaul of transparency rules
The European Commission is looking into how it can overhaul rules on public access to EU documents as citizens" requests for information increase year on year. Statistics show that the council - member states" secretariat - and commission turn down one third of the applications for information access, while the parliament refuses around 20 percent. [...] ”There is a culture of secrecy running through the European Commission, and the public and groups like Friends of the Earth must fight for every piece of paper to be made public,” said a Friends of the Earth campaigner last year after the ombudsman agreed that the commission had been wrong in refusing to release documents on scientific concerns about the safety of genetically modified foods.
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2007-02-02 | permalink
EU considers overhaul of transparency rules
The European Commission is looking into how it can overhaul rules on public access to EU documents as citizens" requests for information increase year on year. Statistics show that the council - member states" secretariat - and commission turn down one third of the applications for information access, while the parliament refuses around 20 percent. [...] ”There is a culture of secrecy running through the European Commission, and the public and groups like Friends of the Earth must fight for every piece of paper to be made public,” said a Friends of the Earth campaigner last year after the ombudsman agreed that the commission had been wrong in refusing to release documents on scientific concerns about the safety of genetically modified foods.
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