Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-11-16-Speech-4-020"

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dcterms:Date	"2000-11-16"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20001116.2.4-020"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Astrid Thors2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Temporary committee on the Echelon interception system (2000-07-06--2001-09-05)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 chair; Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-13--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Svenska folkpartiet (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Lithuania Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 member; PETI (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (1999-09-13--2002-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; ELDR (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, a lot of wise things have been said regarding the background to this report. I nevertheless think that we should emphasise that this is a question of standing matters on their heads. It is now a question of giving citizens the power to control the institutions. In the opinion of the Committee on Petitions, the importance of registers is mentioned. Registers are important if we are not to have a form of public access to documents that is . The Committee would like all documents to be included, irrespective of whether they have been drawn up by the institutions or whether the institutions have them in their possession. Of course, the institutions can be given time to consider documents, but in that case it is not a question of forever preventing these documents from being released. When this time is up, it must also be possible for these documents, too, to be evaluated. We must also do the balancing mentioned by Mr Cashman as rapporteur. We must always weigh different interests against each other: the interests of having a public discussion and the interests of protecting individual people, for example. It is also important that the parties affected have rights. We wish to emphasise that these parties must have more rights than the general public. However, the issue here is the public's, not Parliament's, access to documents. The Committee on Petitions would like to see shorter waiting periods before documents are released. Time is power in our society. We would also like to emphasis the important role the Ombudsman has played in the progress that has, nevertheless, been made. I believe that he will also have an important role to play in the future. We would also like to underline the fact that this is not a matter of harmonising national regulations. National cultures must be able to continue, for example in the country I come from, where some time ago the whole principle of public access to official records was conceived."@en1
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