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23 Dic 2012

Access Info in the News 2012

2018-11-13T10:12:53+01:00

News articles from 2012 Lobbying and transparency: pressuring the European Union Global Voices | 15/12/2012English-Various NGOs, like Access Info Europe, HAI, Environmental Service Law and Spinwatch, decided to raise awareness of the need to control lobbying through the EU Citizens Project. This allowed more than 40 European citizens, committed to transparency, to travel to Belgium in order to discover the framework of the European Institutions, to meet with European officials and to reflect about problems generated by lobbying. The central event was the conference Participation, Ethics and Transparency: What the Citizens Want from Brussels, on November 16th. Read more... Access

Access Info in the News 20122018-11-13T10:12:53+01:00
17 Dic 2012

Amigos de la Tierra y Access Info Europe exigen al Ministerio de Agricultura que desvele la ubicación de los cultivos comerciales transgénicos

2020-02-14T16:12:49+01:00

Madrid, 17 de diciembre de 2012 – Amigos de la Tierra y Access Info Europe han presentado hoy una solicitud de información al Ministerio de Agricultura, Alimentación y Medio Ambiente para que desvele la ubicación exacta de los cultivos comerciales transgénicos de maíz, que se mantiene en secreto, en violación de la legislación europea. La solicitud se ha enviado también a través de la web tuderechoasaber.es. España es el único país de la Unión Europea que cultiva transgénicos a gran escala, mientras las principales potencias agrarias europeas, como Francia o Alemania, prohíben su cultivo. Según datos de 2011, la superficie

Amigos de la Tierra y Access Info Europe exigen al Ministerio de Agricultura que desvele la ubicación de los cultivos comerciales transgénicos2020-02-14T16:12:49+01:00
6 Dic 2012

Limpia el humo de Bruselas – Pide transparencia del lobby ahora!

2020-02-14T16:12:59+01:00

Un grave escándalo de lobby ha sido descubierto en Bruselas después de que uno de los altos funcionarios de la Comisión Europea se viera obligado a dimitir por su implicación en un proceso de tráfico de influencias. La industria tabacalera afirmó que un grupo de presión relacionado con el Comisario de Salud, John Dalli, le solicitó decenas de millones de euros a cambio de influir en la directiva europea sobre consumo de tabaco. Con la nueva legislación sobre tabaco, se teme que Dalli haya podido caer en la trampa de la industria tabacalera, diseñada para retrasar las restricciones sobre consumo

Limpia el humo de Bruselas – Pide transparencia del lobby ahora!2020-02-14T16:12:59+01:00
5 Dic 2012

Participation, ethics and transparency: what citizens want from Brussels

2018-11-13T10:13:09+01:00

Participation, ethics and transparency: What citizens want from Brussels Brussels, 17 November 2012 – The European Union is ever more important in influencing the laws and policies that affect more than 500 million europeans. Yet very few know about our european representatives and the influence of interest groups upon them. Therefore, various organisations around Europe, including Access Info Europe, Friends of the Earth Europe, Spinwatch, Environmental Law Service, HAI Europe and Aitec have decided to make citizens aware about the topic through various national campaigns in favour of lobbying regulation through the EU Citizens Project. The last meeting aimed to

Participation, ethics and transparency: what citizens want from Brussels2018-11-13T10:13:09+01:00
4 Dic 2012

Sí saben, pero no contestan

2020-02-14T16:13:04+01:00

A pesar de la inminente puesta en marcha de una ley de acceso a la información pública, el informe del primer cuatrimestre de actividad en ‘Tu Derecho A Saber‘ pone de manifiesto que, en la práctica, existen graves problemas de transparencia en España. Este primer informe, revela que la mayoría de las solicitudes no obtienen respuesta, o ésta es incompleta. En concreto, el 47 % no tienen contestación alguna (lo que llamamos ‘silencio administrativo’), y sólo un 14% cuentan con una respuesta satisfactoria. Es decir, en un 86 % de los casos, el ciudadano no obtuvo la información que deseaba,

Sí saben, pero no contestan2020-02-14T16:13:04+01:00
22 Nov 2012

Lithuania Nuclear Power

2018-11-13T10:13:09+01:00

Debate on Lithuanian Nuclear Power Deal Centres on Access to Information It is unacceptable to shield a nuclear project from Freedom of Information says Access Info Europe Vilnius, 22 November 2012– At a high-level debate in Lithuania (20 November 2012), Access Info Europe strongly criticised an anti-freedom of information clause in the public-private partnership agreement on the Visaginas nuclear power plant between the government of Lithuania and Hitachi corporation. Access Info said that the confidentiality provisions represented particularly dangerous practice and risked stifling public debate around the important issue of nuclear power.

Lithuania Nuclear Power2018-11-13T10:13:09+01:00
14 Nov 2012

Measuring Transparency Debate

2020-02-14T13:46:32+01:00

The Debate on How to Measure «Openness» 9 November 2012 – In a public comment issued today, Helen Darbishire, Executive Director of Access Info Europe and Toby Mendel, Executive Directorof the Centre for Law and Democracy respond to criticisms of the RTI Rating in the paper Measuring Openness: A Survey of Transparency Ratings and the Prospects for a Global Index by Sheila Coronel, Director of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism and Profesor at the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University. The authors of the comment also raise concerns about the various global indices of «transparency» and «openness» and call

Measuring Transparency Debate2020-02-14T13:46:32+01:00
13 Nov 2012

Spain is a world leader in Open Data. Says who?

2018-11-13T10:13:10+01:00

13 November 2012 – In September 2012 the Web Foundation published the first edition of its Open Data Index, “a specific set of 14 indicators directly targeted at measuring open data worldwide”. Many open data and transparency activists in Spain were surprised to find Spain in the leading pack, since Spain still doesn't have an access to information law and there is no coherent national Open Data policy or practice. The only actively maintained Open Data initiatives are those started by a few local and regional governments, with no coordination or support from the national level. More importantly, key datasets

Spain is a world leader in Open Data. Says who?2018-11-13T10:13:10+01:00
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