Transparencia: ¿lema o realidad?
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:05:08+01:00Date: 25 June 2015, 9:30am Location: Sala de Conferencias del Instituto Nacional de Administración Pública (INAP) c/ Atocha 106, Madrid
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T09:46:27+01:00
Date: 8-10 June 2015 Location: Vilnius, Lithuania Transparency International Secretariat hosted a meeting in Lithuania for its European chapters that were working on their two-year lobby transparency project. They invited Access Info Europe and ALTER EU as external participants to the meeting, to provide our feedback and input. We specifically discussed the global lobby transparency standards that we have been working on alongside TI, Open Knowledge Foundation and Sunlight Foundation. We also took some time to discuss our campaign work on lobby transparency at the EU level and proposed some ideas for joint activities, particularly on how TI chapters could
Civil society urges World Bank to collect and publish beneficial ownership data of contractors
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T09:46:28+01:00Madrid, 10 June 2015 - Over 100 civil society organizations from around the globe including Access Info Europe, on 8 June 2015 called on the World Bank to require that all companies bidding for Bank-financed procurements disclose their beneficial ownership information and that this information be published in an open data format as part of the Bank’s efforts to foster transparency in its contracting practices. Such a move would be in line with current trends to end corporate anonymity: On 5 June 2015, the Norwegian Parliament voted unanimously to establish a beneficial ownership registry, following in the footsteps of the
Access Info sends its submission to the Spanish Transparency Council’s public consultation
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T09:46:28+01:00Madrid, 9 June 2015 - - Access Info Europe has sent today its contributions to the open consultation by the Transparency Council and Good Government on its Strategic Plan 2015-2020. Access Info contributions are divided in two sections: » Some pending issues which deserve the attention and intervention of the Transparency Council, among which stand out: the need to press for the development of the Regulation that develops the transparency law; the need to simplify the process to submit applications; and the need torevise the management of deadlines of the institutions when answering access to information requests. » Suggestions about functions,
Transparencia y gobierno abierto: realidades y aplicación práctica
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:05:09+01:00Date: 22-24 June 2015 Location: Península de la Magdalena, Santander
EU Member States urged to guarantee access to registers of beneficial owners of companies
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T09:46:29+01:00Brussels/Madrid, 4 June 2015 – Access Info Europe has welcomed the adoption of the EU’s Anti Money Laundering Directive obliging Member States to set up a central registry of beneficial owners of companies, but has warned that this information will not be available to investigative journalists and civil society watchdogs unless Member States take steps to ensure that the registers are public. The Anti Money Laundering Directive [1], which EU Member States now have two years to transpose into national law, requires each country to maintain a centralised database on the natural persons behind legal structures, in a bid to
El Gobierno afirma que el silencio administrativo no supera el 1% en los últimos cinco meses
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T09:46:29+01:00Post originalmente publicado en El Blog de Tuderechoasaber.es Madrid, 6 de mayo de 2015 - Desde que Access Info Europe empezó a monitorear en 2005 el nivel de respuesta de las instituciones públicas españolas a las solicitudes de acceso a la información hasta el último informe de Tuderechoasaber.es en 2014, la falta de respuesta ha sido la tónica dominante: cerca de una de cada dos solicitudes de información ha obtenido la callada por respuesta. Eso es lo que implica el silencio administrativo, que si pasado el plazo que indica la ley para un procedimiento administrativo, de un mes en el
Access Info Europe welcomes European Ombudsman investigation into excessive secrecy of “trilogues”
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T09:46:30+01:00Madrid, 28 May 2015 - Access Info Europe today welcomed the decision by the European Ombudsman to investigate the lack of transparency of “trilogues”, the informal and secretive negotiations between the EU’s Commission, Council and Parliament by which much future legislation is decided. In spite of their crucial role in the legislative process, trilogues are closed meetings, and there is a severe lack of access to key information such as participants, agendas, minutes or documents considered. Access Info has frequently criticised trilogues for violating the fundamental rights obligations of the EU treaties, which require that EU institutions “conduct their work
AsktheEU.org and the EU Institutions: The Challenge of running an Alaveteli Request Platform
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T09:46:30+01:00Madrid, 22 May 2015 - Following AlaveteliCon 2015 in Madrid on 19-20 May, Access Info Europe’s director Helen Darbishire, reflects on 3.5 years of running the AsktheEU.org website for making documents requests to the European Union. In particular she notes the successes, challenges and lessons learned about the relationship with the EU Institutions and public officials. Access Info Europe launched AsktheEU.org on 28 September 2011 on International Right to Know Day at an event in the European Parliament organised by the European Ombudsman. One of our first messages was the desire to cooperate with the various EU bodies in making
Civil society secures European Parliament support for transparency of mineral imports
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T09:46:30+01:00Madrid, 22 May 2015 – The European Parliament this week took a strong stance in favour of binding rules on transparency for the mineral extraction industry, following a letter sent to MEPs signed by 157 civil society organisations, including Access Info Europe, calling for action to tackle the deadly trade in conflict minerals. The civil society letter called on MEPs to require all companies bringing minerals into the EU – whether in their raw form or contained in products – to carry out supply chain due diligence and publicly report in line with international standards. If it eventually becomes law,