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10 Abr 2015

Seeking Sign-ons for Letter to European Commission on Lobby Transparency

Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T09:47:18+01:00

The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU), which Access Info participates in as a Steering Committee member, is seeking sign-ons from civil society organisations for a letter to European Vice-President Frans Timmermans, as part of our campaign to improve lobbying transparency in Brussels. The EU has a voluntary lobby register that covers the European Parliament and European Commission. The register is meant to tell us who the EU's lobbyists are; who they are working for; how much they spend on influencing policy; and what specific dossiers they lobby on. Yet the lobby register does not deliver real transparency,

Seeking Sign-ons for Letter to European Commission on Lobby TransparencyHelen Darbishire2018-11-13T09:47:18+01:00

4 Mar 2015

Access Info files complaint before EU Ombudsman on procurement transparency in Serbia

Helen Darbishire2020-02-14T15:34:05+01:00

Madrid, 4 March 2015 - Access Info Europe has criticised the European Commission’s refusal to provide full disclosure of an evaluation document about the procurement process for a water sewage plant in Serbia, in a complaint sent today to the European Ombudsman. [1] Access Info was denied access to the names of the companies that applied for a tender contract, the names of the committee members who chose the winner of the tender, the assessments made of the companies, and the details of the procurement contract. The European Commission office in Belgrade first denied this information on the grounds of

Access Info files complaint before EU Ombudsman on procurement transparency in SerbiaHelen Darbishire2020-02-14T15:34:05+01:00

12 Feb 2015

MEP Julia Reda questions European Commission on postal address policy

Helen Darbishire2020-02-14T16:00:31+01:00

Madrid, 12 February 2015 – A Member of the European Parliament, Julia Reda (Pirate Party, Germany), has filed a Parliamentary Question calling on the European Commission to provide justifications for its policy of refusing to register access to documents requests if citizens do not provide their personal postal address. Access Info Europe welcomes this investigation into the postal address policy, introduced on 1 April 2014, which the Commission has stated is necessary because it is "increasingly confronted with cases where applicants seem to hide behind false identities". Julia Reda’s Parliamentary Question notes that the new policy is placing barriers for

MEP Julia Reda questions European Commission on postal address policyHelen Darbishire2020-02-14T16:00:31+01:00