Activities of Josep-Maria TERRICABRAS related to 2015/2287(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Public access to documents for the years 2014-2015 (debate) ES
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on public access to documents (Rule 116(7)) for the years 2014-2015 PDF (402 KB) DOC (132 KB)
Amendments (9)
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Regrets that official documents are frequently over classified, and institutions call for in camera meetings without proper justification; an independent authority should be tasked with oversight of the classification of documents and requests for meetings to be held in camera;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Urges all the institutions, pending its desired revision, to apply Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 in the proper mannertaking into account the changes brought by the Lisbon Treaty and the Charter of Fundamental Rights; calls on the Council in particular to revise its rules, with a view to ensuring that all discussions, documents, and information are made public, and to produce transcripts of its public meetings;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Is concerned that the registers kept by the institutions still do not properly implement the provisions of Articles 11 and 12 of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 and that large numbers of documents are not in fact registered: urges all institutions, agencies and other bodies to keep records for each file of its incoming and outgoing mail, of the documents it receives and of the measures it takes and to establish an index of the files it keeps; reiterates its call for a common access point to EU documents and common procedures and criteria for registration and the assignment of an inter- institutional code so that eventually a common inter-institutional register could be established;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Points out that, as a result of the entry into force of the TEU and the TFEU, the right of access to documents covers all EU institutions, bodies, and agencies; believes, therefore, that the substance of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 should be amended in the light of the relevant case law of the EU Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights; stresses that the actual public access to documents and the management of registers over documents need to be based on standards which adequately respect Articles 41 and 42 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Deplores the failure to implementConsiders that institutions, agencies and other bodies of the European Union still have failed to fully take the changes brought by the Lisbon Treaty and the Charter of Fundamental Rights into account when applying Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, in particular, as regards the obligation for the institutions to keep complete registers of documents; calls for a European policy on registers to be established and for implementing measures to standardise the classification and presentation of the institutions’' documents;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Points out that transparent law-making is of the utmost importance to citizens; reminds that the Treaties in force no longer contain any provisions comparable to the ones in Article 207(3) of the EC Treaty which could justify the application of the exception protecting the 'space to think' in Article 4(3) of the Regulation to legislative matters; recalls that access to documents and that openness in the legislative procedure contributes to strengthening democracy by allowing citizens to scrutinise all the information which has formed the basis of a legislative act; calls on the institutions actively to circulate documents forming part of, or related to, legislative procedures and to improve communication with persons who might wish to obtain them; considers in particular that the EU institutions should, by default, make as many documents as possible accessible to the public via a single publicly accessible common portal making for ease of consultation;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the institutions involved to ensure in future that negotiations will be transparent and, to that end, to allow meetings to be held in public and webstreamed and to arrange for agendas, minutes, and the main issues discussed to be published; considers, that documents created in the framework of trilogues, such as agendas, summaries of outcomes and the 'four column' documents drawn up for facilitating negotiations, which without doubt are documents related to legislative procedures cannot in principle be treated differently from other legislative documents;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Notes that international agreements have binding force and an impact on EU legislation and points to the need for negotiations to be transparent throughout the entire process, implying that the institutions should be obliged to publish the negotiating brief conferred on the Commission; considers it regrettable that negotiationthe Commission and the Council routinely classify all documents are secretlating to negotiations and citizens have no access to information, but only to documents communicated to the press, thus giving rise to speculation and misconceptions about the negotiations; maintains that the public should be given access to all of the parties’' relevant negotiating documents, in keeping with Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Invites the Interinstitutional Committee established by Article 15(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 to work more actively and report to the competent committees on the issues discussed; calls on it to meet more regularly, and to open internal discussions and deliberations by and inviting and considering submissions from civil society, the European Ombudsman and the European Data Protection Supervisor; calls on it to address as a matter of urgency the issues mentioned in this resolution;