European Union Administrative Law Project

Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice

European Union Administrative Law Project

A Joint Project of the Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice and International Sections of the American Bar Association
(with representatives from the Sections of Business Law and Environment, Energy, and Resources)

ACCESS

A. EU PARLIAMENT: EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, APPLICATION FOR A LONG-TERM VISITOR'S ACCESS PASS

Amendment to the Rules of Procedure: Access to European Parliament documents, 13 November 2001, European Parliament, A5-0349/2001

Overview of the European Parliament

DAILY NOTEBOOK, Call for a boost to EU information policy, 13 March 2002

Report on the Commission communication on a new framework for co-operation on activities concerning the information and communication policy of the European Union, 25 February 2002, European Commission, (COM (2001) 354-C5-0465/2001/2192(COS)), Final A5-0051/2002, RR\303789EN.doc

Decision of the Bureau of the European Parliament of 17 April 1998, implementing as regards the provisions concerning the fee to be paid for the delivery of very large documents, Decision 97/632/ECSC, EC, Euratom, of the European Parliament, and in particular Article 3(1) thereof. (98/306/EC, ECSC, Euratom)

Call for more transparency and democracy in Community legislation, NEWS REPORT: 20 NOVEMBER 2001

The Week Ahead, 26 November - 2 December 2001 (example of public notice of
EU meetings), NEWS ALERT: 23 NOVEMBER 2001

B. COUNTRY POLICIES: Rules on Lobbying and Intergroups in the National Parliaments of the Member States, Working Document “National Parliaments” Series, European Parliament, Directorate-General for Research, W-5/rev., (1998)

Transparency in United States Government Rulemaking (no cover page w/date or source).

Overview of Member States’ National Legislation Concerning Access to Documents, 9 October 2000, European Commission, Secretariat General, SG.B.2/VJ/CD D(2000)

David Banisar, Freedom of Information and Access to Government Records Around the World, Privacy International (March 2001)

C. ACCESS TO EUROPEAN UNION DOCUMENTS: Christopher G. Quinton, Access to European Public Sector Information: Reconciling the Access Needs of Administrative Transparency and the Information Market,” Cardozo Law Bulletin (January, 1997)

Frederic P. Louis, La Communication de la Commission sur l’acces au Dossier dans le Procedure de Concurrence: Point Final ou Premier Pas dans la Bonne Direction?, Cahier du Droit European, Extrait, No. 1-2, (1998)

European Commission, Directorate General for Industry, Directive 83/189/EEC, A Commentary: A guide to the procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations, (1998)

Roy W. Davis, Public Access to Community documents: a fundamental human right?, European Integration online Papers (EioP), Vol. 3 (1999-008a.htm)

Council Decision amending Decision 93/731/EC on public access to Council documents and Council Decision 1000/23/EC on the improvement of information on the Council’s legislative activities and the public register of Council documents, Official Journal of the European Commission, L 212/9, 23, (2000/527/EC),(August 2000)

Working document for Trialogue on 24 January 2001, Subject: Commission proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents, Secretary General of the Council of the European Union, (doc.5817/1/00 REV 1)

Maurice Frankel, Freedom of Information: Some International Characteristics, Campaign for Freedom of Information, (February 2001)

Council Decision of 9 April 2001 on making certain categories of Council documents available to the public (2001/320/EC), Official Journal of the European Communities, 20 April 2001

Regulation (EC) No. 1049/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents, Official Journal of the European Communities, 31 May 2001

D. TRANSPARENCY IN GENERAL: Tony Bunyan, Deirdre Curtin and Aidan White, Essays for an Open Europe, European Federation of Journalists, (November 2000)

Eric Stein, Article: International Integration and Democracy: No Love at First Sight, 95. A.J.I.L. 489, (July 2001)

GOVERNANCE/COMITOLOGY

A. GOVERNACE - WHITE PAPERS AND REACTIONS

Programme -- the Commission's White Paper on Governance: What's in it for the environment? 3-4 December, 2001

National Consumer Council, The EU white paper on governance: input by the National Consumer Council, London, May 2001.

Perceptions of the European Union: A Qualitative Study of the Public's Attitudes to and Expectations of the European Union in the 15 Member States and the 9 Candidate Countries -- Summary of Results, June 2001.

European Governance: A White Paper, COM(2001) 428 final, Commission of the European Communities, 25 July 2001.

European Commission, A preview of the White Paper: Guidelines to enrich the Commission's recommendations on European governance, Newsletter European Governance No. 6, (July 2001).

European Commission, Paper Review: The Future of Parliamentary Democracy: Transition and Challenge in European Governance, 9 November 2000

Report: on the Commission White Paper on European governance, Committee on Constitutional Affairs, FINAL, A5-0399/2001, European Parliament, 15 November 2001.

The Debate on Governance Lays the Foundation of 2004, The European Governance Newsletter number 7, (December 2001).

Action Re: White Paper, PE 304.289, RR\454789EN.doc, European Commission, (November 2001).

Canadian Input to the White Paper on European Governance, 27 March, 2002

Contributing to Global Governance: The EU Committee position paper on the Commission's White Paper on European Governance, The EU Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Belgium, 25 March 2001 (Executive Summary)

Jean Monnet Program - Working Paper Series, New York University School of Law, (2001):

a.)              Beate Kohler-Koch, The Commission White Paper and the Improvement    of European Governance

b)         Erik O. Eriksen, Governance or Democracy? The White Paper on European Governance

c)         Deidre Curtin, The Commission as Sorcerer's Apprentice? Reflections on EU Public Administration and the Role of Information Technology in Holding Bureaucracy Accountable

d)         Philippe C. Schmitter, What is there to Legitimize in the European Union...and How Might This be Accomplished?