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"Mr President, I too want to begin by congratulating the rapporteur, Mr Cashman, and his co-rapporteur, Mrs Maij-Weggen on their assiduous work on considerably improving this regulation, increasing transparency and facilitating people’s access to the institutions’ documents.
The result of the review carried out in 2001 is encouraging. Clear progress has been made, and the trend is towards a more open attitude which will hopefully also lead to people making better use of their rights. Mr Cashman’s report clearly shows, however, that there is still a very great deal to be done and that there are still serious deficiencies. One such serious deficiency is that, when electronic systems are created, this is in the form of more than one system instead of a uniform system. I am grateful that Commissioner de Palacio emphasised this, together with the fact that a uniform and coordinated electronic case handling system is needed, whereby cases might be monitored throughout the whole process. Otherwise, it will be impossible for people to acquaint themselves with such a process.
The Council seems, however, consistently to interpret Article 4 of the Regulation too restrictively, that is to say where general security is concerned. Something must be done about this as soon as possible. In Amendment No 2, we have proposed a change to paragraph 4 in order genuinely to bring this about.
Paragraph 16, which talks about a harmonisation of the legislation on open government in the Member States’ administrations, worries me a little. I do not believe that we would in that way obtain increased openness and greater access to documents. I propose, instead, that you vote in favour of Amendment No 3 by the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance."@en1
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