Open Government in the EUA legal analysis published in Ars Aequi last week situates the General Court’s judgment in Stevi and the New York Times Company v Commission (commonly referred to as the ‘Pfizergate’ case) within the broader context of ‘alternative documents’ regimes in the Commission and Council of the EU. In this blog post, first author Andra Primavarus sets out the core argument.
General Court of the EU rules in favour of European law professor’s access to documents case against the Commission. Inter alia, the latter argued -unsuccessfully- that it could not provide timely and complete access due to temporary staff shortages.
The Commission’s New Directive on Transparency of Third Country Lobbying
The European Commission emphasises that the new law does not stigmatise anyone nor involve criminal sanctions. But the more a statement is repeated, the less credible it appears, says Emilia Korkea-aho.
Each year, the three core EU institutions, as well as a host of other bodies, publish their annual reports detailing the state of the implementation of Regulation 1049/2001 governing the public’s access to their documents. How did this right fare in 2022?
