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Access Info in the News 2012

2018-11-13T10:12:53+01:00

News articles from 2012 Lobbying and transparency: pressuring the European Union Global Voices | 15/12/2012English-Various NGOs, like Access Info Europe, HAI, Environmental Service Law and Spinwatch, decided to raise awareness of the need to control lobbying through the EU Citizens Project. This allowed more than 40 European citizens, committed to transparency, to travel to Belgium in order to discover the framework of the European Institutions, to meet with European officials and to reflect about problems generated by lobbying. The central event was the conference Participation, Ethics and Transparency: What the Citizens Want from Brussels, on November 16th. Read more... Access

Access Info in the News 20122018-11-13T10:12:53+01:00

NGOs challenge Spanish government secrecy on location of GMO crops as a violation of European Union law

2018-11-13T10:13:08+01:00

Madrid, 17 December 2012 – Friends of the Earth (Spain) and Access Info Europe today (17 December 2012) presented a request for information calling on the Spanish Government to reveal the location of field with genetically modified maize which it is keeping secret in violation of EU law. The request was submitted via the website tuderechasaber.es (“your right to know”) and delivered in person to the Ministry of Agriculture. Spain is the only EU country with large scale production of genetically modified crops – around 100,000 hectares [1] – while other countries such as France and Germany

NGOs challenge Spanish government secrecy on location of GMO crops as a violation of European Union law2018-11-13T10:13:08+01:00

Clear the smoke in Brussels – demand lobbying transparency now!

2018-11-13T10:13:08+01:00

Clear the smoke in Brussels – demand lobbying transparency now! A major lobbying scandal has been unraveling in Brussels after one of the European Commission’s top officials was forced to resign following allegations of cash-for-influence. The tobacco industry claimed they’d been asked for tens of millions of euros by a lobbyist linked to health commissioner, John Dalli, in exchange for influencing EU tobacco policy. But with new tobacco legislation in the pipeline, there are fears that Dallimay have been caught in a tobacco industry set-up designed to delay changes the industry don’t want.

Clear the smoke in Brussels – demand lobbying transparency now!2018-11-13T10:13:08+01:00

Participation, ethics and transparency: what citizens want from Brussels

2018-11-13T10:13:09+01:00

Participation, ethics and transparency: What citizens want from Brussels Brussels, 17 November 2012 – The European Union is ever more important in influencing the laws and policies that affect more than 500 million europeans. Yet very few know about our european representatives and the influence of interest groups upon them. Therefore, various organisations around Europe, including Access Info Europe, Friends of the Earth Europe, Spinwatch, Environmental Law Service, HAI Europe and Aitec have decided to make citizens aware about the topic through various national campaigns in favour of lobbying regulation through the EU Citizens Project. The last meeting aimed to

Participation, ethics and transparency: what citizens want from Brussels2018-11-13T10:13:09+01:00

Sí saben, pero no contestan

2018-11-13T10:13:09+01:00

A pesar de la inminente puesta en marcha de una ley de acceso a la información pública, el informe del primer cuatrimestre de actividad en ‘Tu Derecho A Saber‘ pone de manifiesto que, en la práctica, existen graves problemas de transparencia en España. Este primer informe, revela que la mayoría de las solicitudes no obtienen respuesta, o ésta es incompleta. En concreto, el 47 % no tienen contestación alguna (lo que llamamos ‘silencio administrativo’), y sólo un 14% cuentan con una respuesta satisfactoria. Es decir, en un 86 % de los casos, el ciudadano no obtuvo la información que deseaba,

Sí saben, pero no contestan2018-11-13T10:13:09+01:00

Lithuania Nuclear Power

2018-11-13T10:13:09+01:00

Debate on Lithuanian Nuclear Power Deal Centres on Access to Information It is unacceptable to shield a nuclear project from Freedom of Information says Access Info Europe Vilnius, 22 November 2012– At a high-level debate in Lithuania (20 November 2012), Access Info Europe strongly criticised an anti-freedom of information clause in the public-private partnership agreement on the Visaginas nuclear power plant between the government of Lithuania and Hitachi corporation. Access Info said that the confidentiality provisions represented particularly dangerous practice and risked stifling public debate around the important issue of nuclear power.

Lithuania Nuclear Power2018-11-13T10:13:09+01:00

Measuring Transparency Debate

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The Debate on How to Measure “Openness” 9 November 2012 – In a public comment issued today, Helen Darbishire, Executive Director of Access Info Europe and Toby Mendel, Executive Directorof the Centre for Law and Democracy respond to criticisms of the RTI Rating in the paper Measuring Openness: A Survey of Transparency Ratings and the Prospects for a Global Index by Sheila Coronel, Director of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism and Profesor at the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University. The authors of the comment also raise concerns about the various global indices of “transparency” and “openness” and call

Measuring Transparency Debate2020-02-14T13:46:32+01:00

Spain is a world leader in Open Data. Says who?

2018-11-13T10:13:10+01:00

13 November 2012 – In September 2012 the Web Foundation published the first edition of its Open Data Index, “a specific set of 14 indicators directly targeted at measuring open data worldwide”. Many open data and transparency activists in Spain were surprised to find Spain in the leading pack, since Spain still doesn't have an access to information law and there is no coherent national Open Data policy or practice. The only actively maintained Open Data initiatives are those started by a few local and regional governments, with no coordination or support from the national level. More importantly, key datasets

Spain is a world leader in Open Data. Says who?2018-11-13T10:13:10+01:00
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