Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-24-Speech-3-293"

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lpv:translated text	". Mr President, first of all, I should like to express my thanks for the excellent report by my colleague Mr Cashman, and also for the positive commentary by Commissioner de Palacio. Mr Cashman and I have worked together on openness a great deal in recent years. That cooperation has always been very positive, very constructive and productive, and that way you start to become good friends too. The Committee on Constitutional Affairs made a number of comments on the first assessment by the Council, the Commission and Parliament regarding the implementation of the Regulation in its first year. We observed that the number of requests for access to documents that were refused by the Council and the Commission is still too large to be readily acceptable. In fact, we should like to see another assessment of the situation by the European Ombudsman for 2004, so that it can be ascertained where further improvements can be made with regard to Article 4, for example, in order to bring about an even greater access to documents; including in the Council, in particular. An important point regarding the Council is that it differentiates between documents of Member States acting, on the one hand, in their capacity as Council members and, on the other hand, as individual Member States. That leads to unequal treatment, with significant restrictions regarding documents of Member States who themselves hardly have any legislation on openness. In the opinion of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, the most appropriate solution is to ask the Member States to adopt open government, too; the Commission would have to submit a directive on this. That is the appeal we make to the Commission: to see whether it can submit a directive that ensures that open government is the same in all the Member States. That would be a good thing for the citizens of those Member States, and also for the citizens who call on EU documents, because it would mean that they had equal access whether they requested them from Sweden, Greece or Portugal. That was my last intervention here in Parliament: I should like to thank Mrs de Palacio, and I should also like to thank the Presidency for its kind words earlier today."@en1
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