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Statewatch wins important case with European Ombudsman

------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: "Caspar Bowden" <cb@fipr.org> To: "FIPR Alert (E-mail)" <alerts@admin.fipr.org>, <apc-euroir-ws@gn.apc.org>, "Ukcrypto (E-mail)" <ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk>, <cyber-rights-UK@mail.cyber-rights.org> Subject: Statewatch wins important case with European Ombudsman Date sent: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 21:59:31 -0000 Send reply to: ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk

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.

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

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