Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-11-16-Speech-4-033"
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"Mr President, I would like to thank the rapporteur and everyone else involved in this work. This is a very important report, which forms an important part of what we might call the EU's new principle of public access to official documents. Included in this, apart from this draft legislation which regulates
right of access to documents, are the framework agreement between the Commission and Parliament and other agreements such as the Solana Decision. It is
that we have the chance to make the EU more open and more democratic. It would be an enormous disappointment if we did not succeed with this. It is a matter of legal security, an efficient administration and effective democracy.
We must remember that
proposal shall establish
right of access to documents without them having to provide a reason for this or to demonstrate that they are affected. We must not confuse this with the role of the European Parliament or with future interinstitutional agreements.
The Cashman report constitutes an improvement on the Commission's proposal, but in my opinion the improvement is not sufficient. We still need to vote in favour of many of the amendments that have been tabled, among others by the Group of the Greens and by the Group of the Europe Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party. The amendment concerning a register is particularly important.
Furthermore, citizens will not need to have their rights
. Instead, they will have the
of access to documents in order to determine for themselves what is important."@en1
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