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Reports on the EU

2018-11-13T10:13:37+01:00

Reports on Transparency in the European Union The Secret State of EU Transparency Reforms This report came out of Access Info's litigation with the Council of the European Union at the General Court of the EU (Case T-233/09). We had asked for documents showing what was being debated during the reform process of EU Regulation 1049/2001 on access to Parliament, Council and Commission documents. The Council replied giving us some information, but nothing that would allow us to identify who was saying what behind the Brussels doors. So we set about asking each EU Member State instead. The Secret State

Reports on the EU2018-11-13T10:13:37+01:00

EU access to doc principles

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European Union Principles on Access to Parliament, Council and Commission Documents Background The European Union’s equivalent of an access to information law has the formal title of Regulation No 1049/2001 regarding Public Access to European Parliament, Council and Commission Documents (henceforth, Regulation 1049/2001). It grants members of the public and legal entities the right to access documents held, transmitted or received by the EU institutions.

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proposed amendments to EU access to docs regulation

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Proposed Amendments to EU Access to Documents Regulation 1049/2001 In 2008, after a relatively short seven years of application during which the European Commission lost a number of key cases overturning its refusals to grant access to documents, it proposed a complete recasting of the Regulation 1049/2001. The justifications for this include bringing it into line with the Lisbon Treaty which expands the scope of the regulation to apply to all EU institutions and all requesters. Another reason given by the Commission is the need to incorporate the provisions of the Aarhus Convention on access to environmental information into the

proposed amendments to EU access to docs regulation2020-01-29T11:16:45+01:00

Materials Spain

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Documents on the right of Access to information in Spain Spain is the only country in the EU with a population of more than one million which still does not have an Access to Information law. Below are some useful documents in which Access Info Europe has analysed the current relevant legal provisions in Spain as well as the draft law that Access Info had access to in 21 September 2010. The draft law on Transparency, Access to Public Information and Good Governance: Main problems of the draft of the Spanish RTI law The Spanish Access to Information Draft Law

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Results of first public consultation confirm defects of Spain’s draft Access to Information law

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17 January 2011 - Access Info Europe published today the results of the public consultation it launched on the draft Spanish Access to Information law. Results of the consultation (Spanish) The consultation reveals that the Spanish public wants the government to be transparent with the adoption process of this law, which was leaked to Access Info Europe and then published online. The vast majority of respondents indicated that this draft is not strong enough to guarantee protection of the right of access to information and needs signficant improvement. In total 99% of respondents consider this right as a fundamental right

Results of first public consultation confirm defects of Spain’s draft Access to Information law2018-11-13T10:13:37+01:00

Request Process in Spain

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Summary: The Access to Information Law defers to other legislation Request sent to Ministry of Justice Outcome of request Information refused Time taken to respond 6 working days (deadline is 1 month) Reason for refusal FOI exceptions applied to registers. Personal privacy. Information not held.   The initial request was sent in Spanish to the Central Mercantile Register on 4 November 2013. At the time, Spain had still not adopted an access to information law, which meant that there was no legal obligation for the register to respond, nor were there specific deadlines for such a response. However, only two

Request Process in Spain2018-11-13T10:06:04+01:00

Access Info launches an international public consultation on the Spanish access to information draft law

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Access Info launched today an international consultation on the Spanish access to information leaked draft law. This follows a consultation conducted in Spain which reveals that the majority of the public called for improvements of the law. The results of this consultation will be sent to the Spanish government. Please find below the text of the draft and a questionnaire. Feel free to make all the comments you come up with besides the questionnaire. The deadline for comments is the 17th of January. Please send it to Victoria Anderica, victoria@access-info.org. Spain draft Access to Information Law September 2010 in English

Access Info launches an international public consultation on the Spanish access to information draft law2018-11-13T10:13:38+01:00

Request Process in Greece

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Summary: Administrative Silence: No response to our request Request sent to Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Click here) Outcome of request Administrative Silence Time taken to respond N/A (Deadline is one month) Reason for refusal N/A   The initial request was sent to the Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry on 16 February 2015. The legal deadline for responding to access to information requests in Greece is one month. On 26 February a response was received from a Chamber representative, which state that our request would be forwarded to his chief directors. A month passed and no response was

Request Process in Greece2018-11-13T10:06:05+01:00

Access Info in the News 2010

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News Articles from 2010 El derecho a la información diplomáticaEl País | 7/12/10Spanish - Hasta que los Gobiernos no apliquen las reglas adecuadas de transparencia e informen a la sociedad sobre lo que hacen con los poderes y el dinero público, las filtraciones seguirán existiendo. Read more... Freedom of Information ToolkitsJournalism.co.uk | 06/12/10English - A great set of advices and tools from Legal Leaks on how journalists can get access to information and legislation in different countries. Access Info Rating Methodology assessed in legal journalCroatian Law Review | -/12/10 Croatian/(English) - The author states the indicators that are encompassed by

Access Info in the News 20102018-11-13T10:13:38+01:00

Protesta global sobre la propuesta de realizar “controles de comportamiento” para la reutilización de información pública en Francia

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Madrid/Paris 14 de diciembre 2010-35 organizaciones de la sociedad civil y numerosos expertos internacionales dedicados a la libertad de expresión de 25 países de todo el mundo, enviaron una carta el 14 de diciembre al Ministro del Interior francés, Brice Hortefeux, y a miembros del parlamento francés solicitándoles la retirada de una propuesta de ley que permitiría llevar a cabo “controles de comportamiento” a aquellas personas u organizaciones que quisieran reutilizar la información obtenida de las instituciones públicas. Esta enmienda, que sería a la actual ley de seguridad, será discutida antes de final de 2010 en el Parlamento francés. Las

Protesta global sobre la propuesta de realizar “controles de comportamiento” para la reutilización de información pública en Francia2020-02-14T16:18:06+01:00
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