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EU: Council of the European Union: Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to European documents

EU: ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS REGULATION: Council of the European Union: Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and
EU: ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS REGULATION: Council of the European Union: Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and
EU: ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS REGULATION: Council of the European Union: Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents (pdf). Council backs quite inadequate Commission proposal to bring the Regulation on access to EU documents (1049/2001) in line with the Lisbon Treaty which ignores Article 15 of the Treaty. See also: Regulation on public to documents: the European Commission is the problem: the Commission 2011 proposals fails to abolish Article 4.3 of the Regulation in line with the Lisbon Treaty: the institutions’ “space to think” in secret: “for two years the Commission has “sat on its hands” and failed to respond to the “institutional impasse” between the Council and the European Parliament, it should now produce a completely new “Lisbonised” proposal” (Tony Bunyan)