Transparencia y gobierno abierto: realidades y aplicación práctica
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:05:09+01:00Date: 22-24 June 2015 Location: Península de la Magdalena, Santander
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Jun 2015
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Jun 2015
EU Member States urged to guarantee access to registers of beneficial owners of companies
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T09:46:29+01:00Brussels/Madrid, 4 June 2015 – Access Info Europe has welcomed the adoption of the EU’s Anti Money Laundering Directive obliging Member States to set up a central registry of beneficial owners of companies, but has warned that this information will not be available to investigative journalists and civil society watchdogs unless Member States take steps to ensure that the registers are public. The Anti Money Laundering Directive [1], which EU Member States now have two years to transpose into national law, requires each country to maintain a centralised database on the natural persons behind legal structures, in a bid to
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Jun 2015
El Gobierno afirma que el silencio administrativo no supera el 1% en los últimos cinco meses
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T09:46:29+01:00Post originalmente publicado en El Blog de Tuderechoasaber.es Madrid, 6 de mayo de 2015 - Desde que Access Info Europe empezó a monitorear en 2005 el nivel de respuesta de las instituciones públicas españolas a las solicitudes de acceso a la información hasta el último informe de Tuderechoasaber.es en 2014, la falta de respuesta ha sido la tónica dominante: cerca de una de cada dos solicitudes de información ha obtenido la callada por respuesta. Eso es lo que implica el silencio administrativo, que si pasado el plazo que indica la ley para un procedimiento administrativo, de un mes en el
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May 2015
Access Info Europe welcomes European Ombudsman investigation into excessive secrecy of “trilogues”
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T09:46:30+01:00Madrid, 28 May 2015 - Access Info Europe today welcomed the decision by the European Ombudsman to investigate the lack of transparency of “trilogues”, the informal and secretive negotiations between the EU’s Commission, Council and Parliament by which much future legislation is decided. In spite of their crucial role in the legislative process, trilogues are closed meetings, and there is a severe lack of access to key information such as participants, agendas, minutes or documents considered. Access Info has frequently criticised trilogues for violating the fundamental rights obligations of the EU treaties, which require that EU institutions “conduct their work
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May 2015
AsktheEU.org and the EU Institutions: The Challenge of running an Alaveteli Request Platform
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T09:46:30+01:00Madrid, 22 May 2015 - Following AlaveteliCon 2015 in Madrid on 19-20 May, Access Info Europe’s director Helen Darbishire, reflects on 3.5 years of running the AsktheEU.org website for making documents requests to the European Union. In particular she notes the successes, challenges and lessons learned about the relationship with the EU Institutions and public officials. Access Info Europe launched AsktheEU.org on 28 September 2011 on International Right to Know Day at an event in the European Parliament organised by the European Ombudsman. One of our first messages was the desire to cooperate with the various EU bodies in making
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May 2015
Civil society secures European Parliament support for transparency of mineral imports
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T09:46:30+01:00Madrid, 22 May 2015 – The European Parliament this week took a strong stance in favour of binding rules on transparency for the mineral extraction industry, following a letter sent to MEPs signed by 157 civil society organisations, including Access Info Europe, calling for action to tackle the deadly trade in conflict minerals. The civil society letter called on MEPs to require all companies bringing minerals into the EU – whether in their raw form or contained in products – to carry out supply chain due diligence and publicly report in line with international standards. If it eventually becomes law,
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May 2015
Wired Next Fest 2015 – “Il segreto di Stato al tempo degli Open Data”
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:05:09+01:00Date: 23 May 2015, 5pm Location: WNF Main Dome, Giardini Indro Montanelli, Corso Venezia 55, Milan, Italy
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May 2015
A FOIA for Italy Could Be a Weak One
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:05:09+01:00freedominfo.org | 14/05/2015 English – A draft freedom of information law currently pending before the Italian parliament would not significantly improve the right to information in Italy. Right to information specialists at Access Info Europe have given the draft law a score of 68 points on the global RTI Rating, which would be only a minimal improvement on the current law’s 57 out of 150 points, putting it among the ten worst FOIA laws out of 102 worldwide. Read more...
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May 2015
The Second International Alaveteli Conference
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T09:46:31+01:00Date: 19-20 May 2015 Location: Impact Hub Next, Madrid
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May 2015
NGOs demand Timmermans make good on mandatory lobbying register
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:05:09+01:00EurActiv | 12/05/2015 English – One hundred and twelve organisations sent a letter to European Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans today (11 May) asking for stronger rules on lobbying transparency. The appeal was organised by the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) and called for a legally binding registry of lobbyists. Timmermans announced last fall that the European Commission would introduce a mandatory transparency registry detailing senior Commission staff's contact with lobbyists Read more...