Activities of Heidi HAUTALA related to 2015/2287(INI)
Legal basis opinions (0)
Amendments (3)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Is concerned that the present practice favours access only by lobbyists to decisive phases of the legislative process and not by the broader public, nor by journalists and academics who transmit and interpret the process for the benefit of informing the public;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Emphasises that also non-legislative documents such as administrative documents are covered by the principle of 'the widest possible access to documents' enshrined in Article 1(a) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 and that documents should be examined case-by-case in order to determine if disclosure of it would actually undermine the protection of one of the interests protected by the exceptions to public access and, where this possibility is foreseen in the Regulation, as well if an overriding public interest would require the disclosure of the document even though an exception could have been applicable prima facie;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Recalls that Articles 1(c) and 15 (1) obliges the institutions to 'promote good administrative practises on access to documents' and to 'develop good administrative practises in order to facilitate the exercise of the rights guaranteed by (the) Regulation'; stresses that transparency is closely connected with the right of good administration, as referred to in Article 298 TFEU and Article 41 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and reiterates its call for the adoption of a regulation on the administrative procedure of the EU's own administration1 a; __________________ 1a European Parliament resolution of 15 January 2013 with recommendations to the Commission on a Law of Administrative Procedure of the European Union (2012/2024(INL)) P7_TA(2013)0004.