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EU: Freedom of Information in the EU: When is a "document" not a "document"? Analysis by Tony Bunyan

01 September 2008

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FOI in the EU: When is a “document” not a “document”? (pdf)

The European Commission has put forward a number of changes to the Regulation on access to EU documents adopted in 2001. Controversially it proposes to change the definition of a "document" which in turn affect which would or would not be listed on its public register of documents. Does this have anything to do with the fact that the European Ombudsman has just ruled that the Commission must abide by the existing definition of a "document" in the Regulation and that it must list all the documents it holds on its public register?

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