Public Access to European Documents
| Session: Information Resources
& Services in the Light of EU Accession |
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Michael Duero, European Court of Auditors; Luxembourg |
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| Abstract: |
One major impact of the EU accession from the Czech information professionals’
point of view will be the entitlement to public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents. With a
rising level of awareness and interest, and a growing need to consult the Institutions’ documents for several reasons,
the citizens and small and medium enterprises will direct their request primarily to their local information
professionals, with the - somehow legitimate - expectation for guidance and help. The speech gives a short
overview over the tools and instruments facilitating access to information concerning the Institutions and offers a
closer look at the legal basis for access to documents. In this context Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001* is considered
a document of central importance and will be presented in detail. Principles of the regulation will be worked out
and some case law from the European Court of Justice will be used to raise awareness of the exceptions from the
general rule of granting public access to documents. At the end of the presentation the Institutions’ distinction
between access to documents and access to information may be discussed.
* Regulation 2001/1049/EC; published in OJ 2001 L 145/43 |
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| About the author: |
Michael Duero has a degree in librarianship as well as in information science
and has been working on the improvement of the information services and document management of in the European Court of
Auditors since 2000.
Previously he held a post as researcher at the Die Deutsche Bibliothek / Frankfurt (German
National Library) in the project CARMEN (Content Analysis, Retrieval and Metadata: Effective Networking). Prior to that
he worked as a researcher at the Institute for Telematics /Trier on electronic publishing.
Having being involved in
library work since 1992 in libraries of all sizes, his research interest focuses on metadata as well as on European
Information. He has been publishing, teaching and lecturing in these fields, i.a. at the Faculty for Information Science
at the Saarland University, the School for Librarianship (Frankfurt) and for EUROLIB, the professional network of
libraries of the European Institutions and Agencies. In addition he is taking a Masters course in European Legal Studies
run by the European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA) in co-operation with the universities in Nancy and
Thessaloniki.
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