Download or read book Public Access to Documents in the EU written by Leonor Rossi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All litigants before the General Court of the EU (GC), the Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) or indeed before any EU body or agency will need to have full access to the documents held by the European Union. Though the legislation regulating the field, Regulation 1049/2001, has been in force for some time, it is a complex field for all would-be litigants. In this book the authors, both experienced practitioners in the area, clearly set out the documentation, access requirements and processes. They include a helpful glossary of terms, tables and appendices setting out the relevant legislation. This will be the seminal text for all practitioners who need to access documentation held by the EU.

Download or read book Access to EU documents written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: European Union Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009-06-18 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Openness is an important principle on which the European Union is founded. Regulation 1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents sets out a code for access to documents held by these institutions. It is the EU equivalent of the freedom of information regimes found in the UK and other states. The Commission has proposed a revision of this Regulation. This report highlights the extent to which the proposal would preclude disclosure both of documents submitted to courts in the course of litigation and documents arising in the course of investigations, even in the face of a strong public interest in disclosure. The Committee feels such an exclusion is, in principle, justified in respect of court documents where the court itself can make provision for disclosure. A controversial issue is how far confidentiality is required for formulating policy (particularly to ensure that policy makers receive frank and open advice) and for negotiating legislation. The report looks at the relevant provisions of the proposal, particularly in the light of recent judgments by the European Court of Justice, and highlights the differences in the approaches of the European Parliament and the Government. These documents should not be given absolute immunity from disclosure but should be protected subject to any overriding public interest. The Committee also concludes that the effect of the proposal to amend the rules on disclosure by the institutions of documents which they hold but which originate from Member States would significantly reduce the existing right of access.

Download or read book Transparency in EU Institutional Law A Practitioner s Handbook written by Bart Driessen and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, which takes account of legal developments until June 2012, describes in detail the EU law affecting the transparency of the institutions as well as the actual practice of the European Commission, the Council and the European Parliament. The relevant practice of other institutions and bodies is also considered. Among the topics covered are: the scope and extent of public access to documents under Regulation 1049/2001; the impact on public access of Regulation 1367/2006 (the ‘Aarhus Regulation’); the procedure for applying for public access; rules on classified information; data protection and public access; the openness of decision-making, the relationship of Regulation 1049/2001 and other rules on access to documents; the law pertaining to the Official Journal; other aspects of transparency of EU decision-making, such as languages, quality of drafting and the involvement of lobbyists; remedies in Court and before the Ombudsman. Fulfilling the clear need for a practical guide to the nuts and bolts of the law and practice on transparency in the EU's institutional system, this book is written for the practitioner and indeed any party with an interest in availing of his or her rights under EU law. It is the only legal resource that serves this function and does so with élan and a matchless clarity.

Download or read book Access to European Parliament Council and Commission Documents written by Office for Official Publications of the European Communities and published by Luxembourg : Office for Official Publications of the European Communities. This book was released on 2002 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Public Access to Documents in the EU written by Leonor Rossi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All litigants before the General Court of the EU (GC), the Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) or indeed before any EU body or agency will need to have full access to the documents held by the European Union. Though the legislation regulating the field, Regulation 1049/2001, has been in force for some time, it is a complex field for all would-be litigants. In this book the authors, both experienced practitioners in the area, clearly set out the documentation, access requirements and processes. They include a helpful glossary of terms, tables and appendices setting out the relevant legislation. This will be the seminal text for all practitioners who need to access documentation held by the EU.

Download or read book Transparency in Europe written by P. J. Stolk and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Access to Commission Documents written by European Commission and published by Luxembourg : European Commission. This book was released on 1997 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Access to Information in the European Union written by Herke Kranenborg and published by ISBS. This book was released on 2005 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last 15 years, transparency has been one of the central themes in the European integration process. By providing more openness about its activities, the European Union tries to bring itself closer to its citizens. Transparency is considered one of the main methods to relieve the 'democratic deficit'. One way of increasing transparency is to grant citizens a right to access information. Another way is to actively publish information. Transparency is not an exclusive feature of European integration. On the contrary, inspiration for policies on access to information is mostly drawn from the sometimes longstanding experiences of the member states. Access to Information in the European Union provides for a detailed and useful overview of EC and member state legislation in the field of access to information, highlighting the similarities and differences between national legislation of different member states.

Download or read book Crosswalking EUR Lex written by Michael Düro and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Public Access to Eu Documents written by Great Britain. Select Committee on the European Communities and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Access to documents is an important part of openness in government. Up till now, access to EU documents has been governed by a code of conduct, but the Amsterdam Treaty requires that the principle of openness be laid down in law. A draft Regulation has been drawn up by the Commission but has proved to be controversial. This report examines the proposal in detail.

Download or read book Global Trends on the Right to Information written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Official Secrets and Oversight in the EU written by Vigjilenca Abazi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph offers a uniquely comprehensive and in-depth legal account of official secrets in the European Union. It critically analyses their implications for oversight and fundamental rights. Based on forty interviews with practitioners and other stakeholders, it offers an understanding of the practices of official secrets and provides a critical and much-needed perspective on how parliamentary, judicial and administrative oversight institutions deal with access to classified material and the dilemma of oversight to concurrently ensure secrecy necessary for EU security policies and openness needed for democratic processes and fundamental rights. The book discerns shifts in institutional practice of oversight at the European Parliament and the Court of Justice of the European Union that disproportionately favour secrecy and the protection of classified documents while creating serious limitations to open democratic deliberations and access to justice, and delivers new insights on the EU's development as a security actor as well as its autonomy from Member States, showing how rules on official secrets were a means for the EU to gain more autonomy in external security cooperation.

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the European Union written by Finn Laursen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current European Union (EU) has existed since 1 November 1993. It emerged from the Treaty of Maastricht largely negotiated during 1991. But the history of European integration goes further back. The Schuman Declaration of 9 May 1950 led to the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in 1951, and in 1957 the two Treaties of Rome created the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or EURATOM), which started operating from 1 January 1958. For some years the EEC was often referred to as the Common Market. The Merger Treaty of 1965 (in force since 1967) created a single executive, the European Commission, and a single Council of Ministers. The three Communities from the beginning in 1958 shared the Parliamentary Assembly and European Court of Justice (ECJ). Although these Communities still had separate treaties, they were increasingly seen as the European Community (EC). This new edition of Historical Dictionary of the European Union has a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, member states, internal policies, external relations, basic theories, treaties, and law. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the European Union.

Download or read book Openness and Transparency in the EU Institutions written by European Commission and published by Luxembourg : Office for Official Publications of the European Communities. This book was released on 1996 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Laws of Transparency in Action written by Dacian C. Dragos and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-20 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the issue of free access to information as part of the openness and transparency principles. The free access to public information has become one of the most hotly contested aspects of contemporary government and public administration. Many countries in Europe have well-established Freedom of Information laws (FOIAs), while others have adopted them more recently. The problems that occur in the implementation of FOIAs are different due to the legal and institutional context; nevertheless, patterns of best practices and malfunctioning are comparable. The book analyses in comparative and empirical perspective the respective main challenges. Whilst the existing literature focusses on the legal provisions, this book offers practical insights through 13 national profiles and the EU level, on how effective the legal provisions of FOIAs really prove to be.

Download or read book The Once Only Principle written by Robert Krimmer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access State-of-the-Art Survey describes and documents the developments and results of the Once-Only Principle Project (TOOP). The Once-Only Principle (OOP) is part of the seven underlying principles of the eGovernment Action Plan 2016-2020. It aims to make the government more effective and to reduce administrative burdens by asking citizens and companies to provide certain standard information to the public authorities only once. The project was horizontal and policy-driven with the aim of showing that the implementation of OOP in a cross-border and cross-sector setting is feasible. The book summarizes the results of the project from policy, organizational, architectural, and technical points of view.

Download or read book Secrecy and Openness in the EU written by Tony Bunyan and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third pillar of the European Union - Justice and Home Affairs - formalised the array of secret committees that had been established since the mid-1970s to coordinate the policies of the Member States on such issues as policing, immigration, asylum, drugs and terrorism. Yet the policies that were developed had fundamental implications for civil liberties and democratic rights. Both before and after the Maastricht Treaty the whole apparatus was outside the control of either national parliaments or the European Parliament, and was not within the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice. However, the EU did adopt a procedure to apply for documents which opened the door for citizens to find out what had been decided. In this book Tony Bunyan analyses the emergence of this secret system and the challenges to it both through exposure and by campaigns to procure documents. Book jacket.