Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-05-03-Speech-4-084"
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"The Danish Social Democrats have today voted for the report by Mr Cashman on a proposal for a Regulation regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents because we believe that an acceptable compromise has been reached and because we believe that the forces that wish for much greater openness and access have achieved more in the negotiations than the countries and forces that have sought to maintain closed systems. At the same time, it is our assessment that we would not have achieved a better result by letting the matter go to a second reading.
In our assessment of the compromise, we attached particular importance to the principles that, as a starting point, all documents should be included, including internal documents, that the number of exceptions should be reduced, and that these should be well-founded, that requests should be dealt with more quickly than was originally proposed and that it should be established that Danish authorities will continue to deal with requests for access to documents in accordance with Danish rules.
If a system is to enjoy our citizens’ confidence, it is not sufficient for it merely to be open under the rules. Instead, it must also be experienced as being open. A great deal of work remains to be done here by citizens and the press, who must use the new rules actively and who must also test the limits of these new rules. It is our hope that the coming years will show all the forces that are sceptical about transparency that it benefits not just democracy but also the institutions’ own internal work for the public to have access to the documents being worked on."@en1
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