Request for access to documents concerning the fishing opportunities for 2023 in the Northeast Atlantic
Dear Council of the European Union,
In accordance with Article 6(1) of Regulation 1049/2001, Article 3 of Regulation 1367/2006, and Article 42 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, ClientEarth AISBL requests access to:
1. The following documents as registered by the Council:
• ST 8108 2023 INIT – NOTE
• ST 13243 2022 INIT – NOTE
• ST 14679 2022 ADD 7 – NOTE
• ST 14679 2022 ADD 9 – NOTE
• ST 14679 2022 ADD 10 – NOTE
• ST 14679 2022 ADD 11 – NOTE
• ST 14679 2022 ADD 13 – NOTE (we identified 16 entries in the Council’s Register for ST 14679 2022 ADD 1-17, but there was no listing of ADD 13; thus we request access provided it exists)
• ST 14679 2022 ADD 15 – NOTE
• ST 15397 2022 INIT – NOTE
• ST 15391 2022 INIT – NOTE
• ST 15391 2022 REV 1 – NOTE
• WK 17965 2022 INIT
• WK 5963 2022 INIT
• WK 6172 2022 INIT
• WK 7821 2021 INIT
• WK 8204 2023 INIT
• WK 8740 2023 INIT
• WK 11183 2022 INIT
• ST 9682 2022 INIT - OUTCOME OF PROCEEDINGS
• ST 9897 2022 INIT – OUTCOME OF PROCEEDINGS
• ST 10983 2022 INIT - OUTCOME OF PROCEEDINGS
• ST 12166 2022 INIT – OUTCOME OF PROCEEDINGS
• ST 12707 2022 INIT – OUTCOME OF PROCEEDINGS
• ST 13221 2022 INIT – OUTCOME OF PROCEEDINGS
• ST 14301 2022 INIT – OUTCOME OF PROCEEDINGS
• ST 15468 2022 INIT – OUTCOME OF PROCEEDINGS
2. Records of the meetings of the Council’s Working Party on Fisheries Policy which took place on the following dates, for which we could not identify specific meeting records in the Council’s Register:
• 19 May 2022
• 13 September 2022
• 13 October 2022
• 20 October 2022
• 27 October 2022
• 8 November 2022
• 11 November 2022
• 17 November 2022
• 24 November 2022
• 6 December 2022
• 8 December 2022
3. Any other documents in the Council’s possession that record the positions of the Member States, the Council and/or the Commission in relation to the Commission’s Proposal for a Council Regulation fixing for 2023 the fishing opportunities for certain fish stocks and groups of fish stocks, applicable in Union waters and, for Union fishing vessels, in certain non-Union waters (interinstitutional file 2022/0343 (NLE)), including documents dated after the December Council 2022. For the sake of clarity, this includes any scientific and/or economic evidence and/or arguments used and/or referred to as well as preparatory and supporting documents and any exchanged correspondence.
This request does not include documents that are already fully publicly accessible in the Council’s document register on the date of this request.
We urge you to take due account of the judgment of the General Court of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Case T-163/21 – Emilio Di Capitani vs. Council of the EU, in which the Court held that documents drawn up and exchanged within the Council working groups in the context of a legislative procedure are legislative documents and thus they must be made available to the public: “it should be recalled that, in a system based on the principle of democratic legitimacy, co-legislators must be answerable for their actions to the public. If citizens are to be able to exercise their democratic rights they must be in a position to follow in detail the decision-making process within the institutions taking part in the legislative procedures and to have access to all relevant information” (para. 84 of Case T-163/21).
Finally, we request that the documents/information falling within the scope of this request be made publicly available on the Council’s documents register, in accordance with Articles 11 and 12 of Regulation 1049/2001 and Article 4 of Regulation 1367/2001. In this context, we reiterate the Decision of the European Ombudsman in case OI/4/2020/TE.
Yours faithfully,
Madalina Popirtaru
Lawyer - Environmental Democracy
ClientEarth
60 Avenue du Trone
1050 Brussels
Jenni Grossmann
Science and Policy Advisor, Fisheries
ClientEarth
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Transparency
General Secretariat of the Council
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Please find attached a letter from the General Secretariat of the Council
concerning your request for access to documents.
Yours sincerely,
Transparency
General Secretariat of the Council
Directorate-General Communication and Information - COMM
Directorate Information and Outreach
Information Services Unit / Transparency
Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat, 175 - B-1048 Bruxelles/Brussel - Belgique/België
[1]www.consilium.europa.eu | [2][email address]
Disclaimer: The views expressed are solely those of the writer and may not
be regarded as stating an official position of the Council of the EU
Clause de non-responsabilité: Les avis exprimés n'engagent que leur auteur
et ne peuvent être considérés comme une position officielle du Conseil de
l'UE
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