Agendas and legislative preparatory documents (Trilogues meetings between March 2nd and April 18th, 2024).
(NB An identical request has been submitted to the Council of the European Union)
Dear European Parliament ,
According to news agencies several legislative Trilogues meetings took places between March 2nd and April 18th, 2024.
However, no official information has yet been published by the co-legislator in their Registers of documents notwithstanding the provisions of art. 15.2 of TFEU, art 16.8 TEU and art. 11, 12 of Regulation 1049/01 and the relevant CJEU Jurisprudence (notably, Case T-540/15).
Bearing in mind that participative democracy, as granted by art 10.3 and 11 TEU, is meaningful only if legislative transparency is granted by the co-legislator and preparatory documents are accessible in a timely manner (see Case T-163/21) as required also by art.15 of Regulation 1049/01 according to which “The institutions shall develop good administrative practices in order to facilitate the exercise of the right of access..” I therefore kindly ask to release as soon as possible, in the public domain, the meeting agendas and the legislative preparatory documents debated in Trilogues legislative meetings between March 2nd and April 18th, 2024..
Thanks in advance for your attention
Emilio De Capitani
11 rue Darwin
1190 Brussels
Our reference: 2024-0369
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Dear European Parliament,
thanks for your message.
I am perfectly aware that using ASKTHEEU makes our exchange of messages and documents accessible to the public.
Please notice that all my requests for access to documents do not deal with personal files (art.41 of the Charter) but deal with legislative preparatory documents. This being the case making also the other citizens aware of their existence, (even through a private application), seems to me the only way of avoiding discriminations in participative democracy, at least until the co-legislator itself, will abide to its the constitutional obligation of proactively making them accessible to the public according to art.15.2 of TFEU and 12 of Regulation 1049/01.
Hope that soon the CJEU will make clear this co-legislator obligation (case T-590/23).
Yours faithfully,
Emilio
Our reference: 2024-0369
Dear Mr De Capitani,
In light of your application for public access to documents, Parliament
has identified and grants access to 36 documents (see Annex). The
documents are being made publicly available on [1]Parliament's Public
Register (Document type 1.4.17) and will be accessible by entering the
reference ‘NEGO_CT(year)no COD’ in the ‘Register Reference’ tab.
Please note that, for technical reasons, it may take some time for all
documents to appear on the website of the Register.
With this response, Parliament considers your request handled and the
procedure closed. Should you wish to submit any new requests for specific
Parliament documents, [2]do not hesitate to contact us again.
Best regards,
TRANSPARENCY UNIT
European Parliament
Directorate-General for the Presidency
Directorate-General for Interinstitutional Affairs and Legislative
Coordination
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