Talks on the revision of the European access to documents regulation have collapsed. The Danish presidency has been unable to reconcile the widely diverging views of parties around the table.
Tag: regulation 1049
The Danish presidency which took over on 1 January, will attempt to make further progress with the embattled transparency dossier.
Yesterday, the European Parliament formally passed its first reading in the revision procedure on Regulation 1049/2001.
Not only in the EU is a debate (or should we say, battle) still ongoing over the meaning and usefulness of transparency. Also in the Netherlands has a member of government sought to reopen a fundamental discussion on the current WOB-regime.
