Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-11-16-Speech-4-038"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-11-16"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Public access to documents of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001116.2.4-038"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-11-16-Speech-4-0392
lpv:speaker	lp:Eija-Riitta Korhola2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Suomen Kristillinen Liitto (1999-07-20--2001-05-30)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Latvia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would like to thank Mr Cashman for his excellent work. However, he is not the only one I should like to thank, as my sincere thanks also go to Hanja Maij-Weggen, of the PPE-DE Group, who is the other rapporteur, thanks to the enhanced Hughes Procedure. I am glad that they have been able to work in close and successful cooperation in this matter. Transparency and democracy are important values in our work, and they will come about if registers on existing information, including that deemed confidential, are made obligatory. This is the principle which I have made the starting point in my own report on the accessibility to information on the environment. It would also be important if the public were given information as to when a document, which is not available to the public at the time a request is made to examine it, because it is incomplete or confidential, will actually be made available. I would like to focus attention on something which concerns public accessibility to documents which fall within the authority of the Commission or are in the possession of bodies set up by the institutions. These latter would include, for example, the European Environment Agency in Copenhagen as well as the Food Safety Agency, which is soon to be established. Naturally, the documents these bodies hold must unambiguously be included within the scope of provisions on accessibility. I do not think Mr Cashman’s chosen technique here is a good one, however. It is technically cumbersome to classify these bodies in a separate Annex, as new bodies are forever being created or changed. It would be better to create provisions in the paragraphs themselves, which would oblige all bodies to publish their documents and create registers on them. Secondly, I would like to draw attention to the work on derogations. The provision of derogations is a very delicate matter, and what is otherwise an excellent report and a huge increase in transparency will very easily be overshadowed in the minds of the public by any clumsy set of provisions on derogations. Naturally we have to finally decide on the sort of practices which would shed public light on the work of the Council, and no set of derogations must be allowed to let the Council retreat behind it in the way it did before. But it is just as important to temper public opinion, which borders very much on the paranoid as a result of exaggerated secrecy with regard to documents on such matters as security and defence. In fact, it is important, as far as security is concerned, that the public can judge, using facts and documents, just how much confidence they have in European defence."@en1

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