Report from the Commission on the application in 2012 of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents

This report, drawn up pursuant to Article 17(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents, covers the year 2012 and is based on statistical data which are summarised in the annex.

These statistics reflect the number of applications and not the number of documents requested. In practice, applications may cover a single document as well as entire files concerning a specific procedure containing thousands of documents. Applications for access to documents which were already publicly accessible at the time of the request, are not included.

In 83% of cases at the intial stage the requested documents were disclosed. At the confirmatory stage, either full or partial access was granted in 43% of cases.

EUR-Lex: COM(2013)515: Follow the progress of this report through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2013:515:FIN

ESO: Background information: Council's public register of documents hits 2 million mark http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-councils-public-register-of-documents-hits-2-million-mark/

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