{"id":11279,"date":"2011-03-20T21:47:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T21:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/s1-advancing-the-right-to-know\/c2-european-union\/11279"},"modified":"2018-11-13T10:13:33","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T09:13:33","slug":"secret-state-eu-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/2011-03-20\/secret-state-eu-transparency\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret State EU Transparency"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Secret State of EU Transparency Reforms<\/h1>\n

16 of 27 Member States refuse to provide information on EU transparency negotiations<\/h2>\n

Brussels\/Madrid, Monday 21 March 2011<\/em>: European citizens can\u2019t find out from either Brussels or from national governments which countries are lobbying against EU transparency, according to a report launched by the NGO Access Info Europe this week.<\/p>\n

The report is launched just before an expected ruling by the European Court of Justice on 22 March in the case of Access Info Europe vs. the Council. <\/em>The pro-transparency organization is challenging the Council\u2019s concealment of Member State positions<\/strong> on the reform of the EU\u2019s access to documents rules.<\/p>\n

After submitting access to information requests in all 27 Member States, Access Info Europe reports that<\/span> only 11 countries provided any information<\/span><\/span> about either their positions and\/or the process of the reform of Regulation 1049\/2001. Two of these, the Netherlands and the UK, only provided information following appeals.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of the 16 countries which did not provide any information, <\/span>six countries <\/span><\/span>formally refused<\/span><\/span> while <\/span>six countries referred back to the Council<\/span><\/span> despite the Council\u2019s assertion that it was up to each Member State to provide this information, and <\/span>four did not respond at all<\/span><\/span> (administrative silence).<\/span><\/p>\n

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 <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Information Received<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

No Information Received<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Partial release of documents<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

Position
\n(& minimal other info) <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

Referral <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

to Council<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

Refusal to release information <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

No response<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Denmark<\/span><\/p>\n

Finland<\/span><\/p>\n

Sweden<\/span><\/p>\n

Lithuania<\/span><\/p>\n

Netherlands<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

+ Council

<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

Austria<\/span><\/p>\n

Estonia<\/span><\/p>\n

Latvia<\/span><\/p>\n

Malta<\/span><\/p>\n

Poland<\/span><\/p>\n

UK<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

Greece<\/span><\/p>\n

Hungary<\/span><\/p>\n

Ireland<\/span><\/p>\n

Romania<\/span><\/p>\n

Slovakia<\/span><\/p>\n

Luxembourg<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

Belgium<\/span><\/p>\n

Czech Republic<\/span><\/p>\n

France <\/span><\/p>\n

Germany<\/span><\/p>\n

Slovenia<\/span><\/p>\n

Spain<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

Bulgaria<\/span><\/p>\n

Cyprus<\/span><\/p>\n

Italy<\/span><\/p>\n

Portugal<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Total 5 countries<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

Total 6 countries<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

Total 6 countries<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

Total 6 countries<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Total 4 countries<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

 <\/p>\n

To download a copy of the report, click here<\/strong> \"file_pdf\"<\/a>
\nTo read the press release click on your preferred format \"file_pdf\"<\/a> \"file_doc\"<\/a> \"odf2odt-16x16\"<\/a> \"html_icon\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Secret State of EU Transparency Reforms 16 of 27 Member States refuse to provide information on EU transparency negotiations Brussels\/Madrid, Monday 21 March 2011: European citizens can\u2019t find out from either Brussels or from national governments which countries are lobbying against EU transparency, according to a report launched by the NGO Access Info Europe this week. The report is launched just before an expected ruling by the European Court of Justice on 22 March in the case of Access Info Europe vs. the Council. The pro-transparency organization is challenging the Council\u2019s concealment of Member State positions on the reform<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11279"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17734,"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11279\/revisions\/17734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}