Transparencia, Documentación e Información del sector público y su Reutilización

LEY DE TRANSPARENCIA

Ley de transparencia, acceso a la información pública y buen gobierno (L 19/2013)

- Excelente comentario a la Ley (J.R. Chaves)

Consejo de Transparencia y Buen Gobierno

Estatuto del Consejo de Transparencia y Buen Gobierno (RD 919/2014)

Acceso a los Documentos públicos en la Unión Europea

Acceso del público a los documentos del Parlamento Europeo, del Consejo y de la Comisión (UE Reg 1049/2001)

- Council's Rules of Procedure (22 nov 2001)
- Decision on public access to European Parliament documents (UE Decisión 304/2001)
- Rules of Procedure of the European Parliament
- European Commission Rules of Procedure on access to documents (5 dic 2001)
- EU-NATO - Council Security Regulations (28 feb 2001)
  - Amendment (apr 2004)
- European Ombudsman code on administrative behaviour: Report (18 mar 2002)
- Recast of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents (first reading) - Preparation of informal trilogues (pdf). Since 1993 the definition of a "document" has been that a: "document shall mean any content whatever its medium" and this is in the current Regulation. However, the Council intends to keep this general definition (Article 3) but to add Article 3a: "Documents subject to this Regulation": which says a document becomes subject to this Regulation (ie: the whole Regulation) when: "it has been drawn up by an institution and either formally transmitted to one or more recipients, submitted for filing or registration, approved by the competent official, or otherwise completed for the purposes for which it was intended" (emphasis added) In simple terms a "document" is only really a "document" when it is finalised (all the drafts and discussion prior to this are not "documents") - this is the same definition, which was widely criticised, first put forward by the Commission in 2008.
- Observatory: the Regulation on access to EU documents: 2008-ongoing (All the latest News and documents on the current negotiations on the revision of the Regulation
- FOI in the EU - with all the developments- Secret Europe - reporting on secrecy and openness in the EU (historical archive)
- Observatory on public access to EU documents: on the struggles between 1999-2001

Key texts
Analyses and critiques
- Code of conduct concerning public access to Council and Commission documents (6 dic 1993) - While this Code covers applications for access to both Council and Commission documents it is in practice the Code used by the Commission as the Council adopted a subsequent Decision on public access to Council documents (20 Dic 1993)

Acceso a Documentos Públicos en casos de control de fusiones

STJCE 29 jun 2012 (casos 404/10 y 477/10) - The Court defines the scope of the right of access to documents of the EU institutions in the context of merger control proceedings. The Commission may, subject to certain conditions, refuse access to documents relating to merger control proceedings without first carrying out a concrete, individual examination of those documents - Comentario breve de la propia Corte.