[FYI] (Fwd) Statewatch wins important case with European Ombudsman

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

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Subject:        	Statewatch wins important case with European Ombudsman
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Statewatch wins important case with European Ombudsman (who also has
very cool logo)

http://www.statewatch.org/news/index.html

http://www.euro-ombudsman.eu.int/recommen/en/000917.htm

In a nutshell, this damning judgement calls on the Council of the
European Union (i.e. the member states' executive/deliberative body in
EU) will now have to record ALL documents in the official register.
The Council is still making weasling attempts to allow "non-papers" or
crucially influential stuff that circulated informally to be
arbitrarily airbrushed from history, so it may require a resolution of
European Parliament to enforce.

This arose in the context of requests to Council for docs on 'ENFOPOL'
policy - the precursor to the recent and current flurry of new
interception and traffic data retention law.

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Caspar Bowden                           www.fipr.org
Director, Foundation for Information Policy Research
Tel: +44(0)20 7354 2333





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