USA: Government Transparency Initiatives Rebooted. What about EU?

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"Providing better access to government information has been the aim of many initiatives over the years with some considerable measure of success..."Further information on Government Transparency Initiatives Rebooted » Details updated: 16 February 2009, by Wayne Hanson.

PS: When new rebooted initiatives will be available at EU level ? Since 2001 and the public registers a few months later,  nothing was improved. Have a look at  The Institutions’ Registers

Ref: 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

See also the previous posts published on this blog at

http://europa-eu-audience.typepad.com/en/1_registersregistres/

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Show us the data: The most wanted federal government documents

Open The Government and Center for Democracy and Technology. "Show Us the Data: Most Wanted Government Documents is collecting examples of government documents and data that are unclassified and should be easily available to the public online, but are not. Show Us the Data is a collaboration between OpenTheGovernment.org and the Center for Democracy and Technology. We hope to encourage open government and citizen participation in democracy through full disclosure of unclassified government documents in open, interoperable formats..." The deadline to submit documents and vote is March 9, 2009.
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GPO's Federal Digital System (FDsys http://fdsys.gpo.gov ) provides public access to government information submitted by Congress and Federal agencies and preserved as technology changes.

For more information on FDsys.

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The migration of information from GPO Access into FDsys will be complete in mid-2009. The migration is occurring on a collection-by-collection basis. Collections currently available on FDsys are:

Compilation of Presidential Documents (1993 to Present) Congressional Bills (103rd Congress to Present) Congressional Documents (104th Congress to Present) Congressional Hearings (105th Congress to Present) Congressional Record (1994 to Present) Congressional Reports (104th Congress to Present) Federal Register (1994 to Present) Public and Private Laws (104th Congress to Present)

 

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[jacques raybaut]

MEPs vote for better public access to documents See http://www.michaelcashmanmep.org.uk/news.php
The Parliament's civil liberties committee supports proposal to give the public better access to EU documents.

MEPs on the European Parliament's civil liberties committee voted this morning (17 February) to give the public better access to documents held by the EU institutions.

The committee members approved with 26 votes for, five against and 15 abstentions a report by Michael Cashman, UK Socialist MEP.

Speaking after the vote, Cashman said he was pleased with the vote, but “sad” that centre-right EPP-ED members had abstained. “They have to explain why they didn't want to bring the EU institutions closer to citizens”.

[jraybaut]

EURActiv
see http://www.euractiv.com/en/pa/swedes-prioritise-transparency-eu-helm/article-179559

Swedes to prioritise transparency at EU helm
Published: Wednesday 18 February 2009

The European Ombudsman yesterday (17 February) expressed his conviction that the incoming Swedish EU Presidency would make progress on making the EU more transparent and accountable to its citizens. Meanwhile, MEPs insisted that "no legislative documents should be kept secret" under a reformed access to documents policy.