Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-11-16-Speech-4-026"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-11-16"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Public access to documents of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001116.2.4-026"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-11-16-Speech-4-0272
lpv:speaker	lp:Pernille Frahm2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Poland Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Socialistisk Folkeparti (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Temporary committee on the Echelon interception system (2000-07-06--2001-09-05)3 vice-chair; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, we have talked such a lot in Parliament about bringing the Union closer to the people, and I think then, if this is what we really want, that this project is crucial. It is a project which may lead to citizens being placed in a position in which they are co-players and active participants and are not just spectators or like pawns in interesting, large-scale games of chess. I therefore also think it is important that, in this report, we should concentrate on citizens’ rights. We should not confuse this issue with every other possible matter connected with the right of access to documents and we should not confuse it with Parliament’s, the Commission’s and the Council’s internal quarrels about access to documents. It is citizens’ rights we are dealing with on this occasion. I should like to emphasise that we shall, in any case, vote in favour of as broad a definition as we possibly can of what the documents in question are. There is a multiplicity of documents nowadays, and we should like to ensure that there is a high degree of access to as many different types of document in as many different forms as is humanly possible. This also means, of course, that, conversely, we want to ensure that the exceptions are as minor and as few in number as they possibly can be. I simply cannot understand why, in the context of this cooperation, it should be necessary to introduce rules more restrictive than those which individual Member States can live with. I cannot understand how it can be accepted that citizens of the European Union should have poorer rights of access to documents than citizens in some individual Member States. I cannot understand why it should be more important or dangerous if something were to be leaked from this ‘Community’, as it is called, than if something similar were to be leaked from the Swedish, or possibly Danish, government. That is why I think it is so crucial that citizens’ rights should not be restricted in those Member States where there is at present good access to documentation and why I think that cooperation should instead be used to increase citizens’ access in the individual Member States and, indeed, in the European Union as a whole. If, then, we mean what we say about citizens’ rights and bringing the European Union closer to the people, then what is needed are not flashy documents and high-minded speeches but quite specific citizens’ rights."@en1

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