EU Ombudsman Jacob Söderman has called on the European Central Bank

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Series Details 15/04/99, Volume 5, Number 15
Publication Date 15/04/1999
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Date: 15/04/1999

to publish clear rules governing public access to its documents. “In practice, clear rules on public access to documents can promote transparency, good administrative behaviour and therefore good relations between citizens and the institutions and bodies,” said the Union's public watchdog in a statement. Söderman said his letter to the ECB was a follow-up to a general request made to all the EU's institutions three years ago.

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