Attendance by MEPs after collecting expenses

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Dear European Parliament,

Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting documents which contain the following information:

- The length of attendance of all MEPs after physically collecting expenses from the EP.

- The time of collection of expenses by MEPs from the EP.

Yours faithfully,

Osian Bowles

Registre, European Parliament

We thank you for your message and acknowledge receipt of your request.

The formulation of your application is not sufficiently precise in order to identify the kind of documents/information you are looking for. Therefore, on the basis of Article 6(2) of Regulation (EC) n° 1049/2001, we invite you to clarify your application.

We thank you in advance for your cooperation,

Transparency - Public Access to documents Unit
Directorate C - DG Presidency
European Parliament

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Dear Registre,

Apologies for the vagueness of the previous request, for clarification:

1) The register signed for the Daily Allowance by individual MEPs for the financial years 2011/12 & 2012/13 if possible.

2) The number of roll-call votes and plenary votes by individual MEPs for the same period if possible.

Yours sincerely,

Osian Bowles

Registre, European Parliament

Dear Mr Bowles,

Thank you for your clarification.

Please note that the European Parliament provides information to the public about MEPs' presence in the normal activities of the Parliament, that is to say in all minutes of its committee meetings and plenary sessions. These minutes include an attendance register of MEPs and results of the roll-call votes.

See here:

For committees: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegistreWe...

For plenary: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/plenary/en...

For an aggregate list of presences and/ or participation in roll-call votes by MEP on an annual basis, such information is produced and analysed by independent organisations such as VoteWatch.

Please see here:

http://www.votewatch.eu/?&lang=en

http://www.votewatch.eu/en/voting-statis...

We hope this information is useful to you.

Kind regards,

Transparency - Public Access to documents
Library and Document Management Directorate
DG Presidency
European Parliament

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