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EU: European Pact on Immigration and Asylum still not officially online on the Council's public register of documents

01 October 2008

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European Pact on Immigration and Asylum (full-text, EU doc no: 13440/08, pdf)

No draft has ever been online, even after it was agreed by the last Justice and Home Affairs Council - five versions are listed but their text is not publicly accessible.

Tony Bunyan, Statewatch editor, comments:

"After all the media speculation as to what is and is not in the Pact it is a disgrace that its text was not made publicly available at any stage. It was not officially available before the JHA Council agreed it, when parliaments and civil society might have wished to express a view. It was not available after it was agreed by the JHA Council, nor now when it has been adopted by European Summit. This is no way to instil trust in democracy at the EU level."

An unofficial version was made available by Statewatch in July:
Informal Justice and Home Affairs Ministers meeting in Cannes: European Pact on immigration and asylum

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