Activities of Eva-Britt SVENSSON related to 2008/0090(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents (debate)
Amendments (7)
Amendment 63 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6 a (new)
Recital 6 a (new)
(6a) Public access to documents is a cornerstone of good administrative practice. A further step is to ensure that the work of the institutions is improved by ensuring access to each other's documents. An interinstitutional agreement should be established in order to increase transparency and accessibility of documents.
Amendment 88 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – point a
Article 3 – point a
(a) «'document»' means any content whatever its medium (written on paper or stored in electronic form or as a sound, visual or audiovisual recording) drawn-up by an institution and formally transmitted to one or more recipients or otherwise registered, or received by an institution; data contained in electronic storage, processing and retrieval systems are documents if they can be extracted in the form of a printout or electronic-format copy using the available tools for the exploitation of the system. A compilation of data contained in electronic storage, processing and retrieval systems is however regarded as being held by the institution only if the institution can make it available by ordinary means;
Amendment 95 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point c
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) legal advice and court, arbitration and dispute settlement proceedings proceedings, except for legal advice in connection with procedures leading to a legislative act or a non-legislative act of general application;
Amendment 104 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 4
Article 4 – paragraph 4
4. The exceptions under paragraphs (2) and (3) shall apply unless there is an overriding public interest in disclosure. As regards paragraphoints 2 (a) and (d) an overriding public interest in disclosure shall be deemed to exist where the information requested relates to emissions into the environment, with the exception of investigations, in particular those concerning possible infringements of Community law. In relation to the other exceptions set out in this Article, the institution shall take into account the public interest served by disclosure and whether the information requested relates to emissions into the environment, where a request concerns access to environmental information.
Amendment 115 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3
Article 7 – paragraph 3
3. In the event of a total or partial refusal, where the applicant calls into question whether any actual harm will be caused to the interests concerned and/or argues that there is an overriding interest in disclosure, the applicant may request the European Ombudsman to give an independent and objective view on the question of harm and/or overriding public interest. If, following delivery of the European Ombudsman's opinion, the total or partial refusal is upheld by the institution, the applicant may, within 15 working days of receiving the institution's reply, make a confirmatory application asking the institution to reconsider its position.
Amendment 124 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 5
Article 10 – paragraph 5
Amendment 137 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16
Article 16
This Regulation shall be without prejudice to any existing rules on copyright which may limit a third party's right to obtain copies of documents or to reproduce or exploit released documents.