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Activities of Tadeusz ZWIEFKA related to 2015/2287(INI)

Shadow opinions (1)

OPINION on public access to documents (Rule 116(7)) for the years 2014-2015
2016/11/22
Committee: JURI
Dossiers: 2015/2287(INI)
Documents: PDF(124 KB) DOC(185 KB)

Amendments (3)

Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Points out, in this connection, that the Treaties in force no longer contain any provisions comparable to the ones in Article 207(3) of the EC Treaty concerning access to Council documents, which were used to justify the application of the exception protecting the 'space to think' in Article 4(3) of the Regulation to legislative matters; reiterates its view, once again, that the current procedures for trilogues prior to a possible first-reading agreement fail to ensure a satisfactory level of legislative transparency and 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 that adequate openness of the legislative procedure 'contributes to strengthening democracy, as stated by the Court of Justice in the joined cases Sweden and Turco v Council; in this respect recalls that there is no automatic presumption and public disclosure should be undertaken in a case by case basis after thorough justification of public interest and should not seriously undermine the institutions decision making process; reiterates that case law recognises the basrisk of a legislative act’, as stated by the Court of Juexternal pressure[1] and it can be a legitimate ground for restrice in the joined cases Sweden and Turcoting access to documents; [1] Case T-144/05, Pablo Munoz v Council;mmission
2015/12/16
Committee: JURI
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Considers, therefore, that documents created in the framework of trilogues, such as agendas, summaries of outcomes and the 'four column' documents drawn up to facilitate negotiations, which without doubt are documents relating to legislative procedures, are per se considered as internal institutional documents and thus per se cannot in principle be treated differently from other legislative documents; recalls that it has already instructed its own competent bodies to take action in this respect and has called on other institutions to do likewise; takes the view that a list of trilogue meetings should be made available and meeting documents made directly accessible on the registertakes the view that a list of trilogue meetings should be made available and meeting documents made directly accessible on the register; recalls that the future inter-institutional agreement on better law-making includes a database on legislative files and also the appropriate handling of trilogues if adopted;
2015/12/16
Committee: JURI
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Invites, once again, 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 the Interinstitutional Committee to meet more regularly and to open up internal discussions and deliberations by inviting and considering submissions from civil society, the European Ombudsman and the European Data Protection Supervisor; calls on it to address the issues mentioned in this resolution as a matter of urgency.
2015/12/16
Committee: JURI