Meeting agendas and legislative preparatory documents (Trilogues from December 20th, 2023 to January 30th,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 December 20th, 2023 and January 30th. 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. 11 and 12 of Regulation 1049/01 and the relevant CJEU Jurisprudence (notably, Case T-540/15).
Bearing in mind that participative democracy, as promoted by the EU Treaties, 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 from November 14th and December 19th 2023.
Thanks in advance for your attention
Emilio De Capitani
11 rue Darwin
1190 Brussels
Our reference: 2024-0086
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Dear Mr De Capitani,
Your application for public access to documents under Regulation (EC) No
1049/2001 is not sufficiently precise to enable us to identify the
documents falling within its scope. We therefore ask you to clarify your
application in accordance with Article 6(2) of that Regulation, as it
mentions two different timeframes.
Please confirm whether your request concerns the time-period between
December 20th, 2023 and January 30th, 2024.
Please be aware that the deadline for responding to your application
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Best regards,
TRANSPARENCY UNIT
European Parliament
Directorate-General for the Presidency
Directorate-General for Interinstitutional Affairs and Legislative
Coordination
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Dear European Parliament,
I hereby confirm that my request concerns the time-period between
December 20th, 2023 and January 30th, 2024.
Sorry for the misleading references in my original messages.
Thanks for your understanding
Yours faithfully,
Emilio
Our reference: 2024-0086
Dear Mr De Capitani,
In light of your application for public access to documents, Parliament
has identified 74 documents (see Annex), which 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.
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cannot be considered as agreed by the co-legislators and that the 4CTs
should always be read together with the corresponding agenda.
Please also note that, for technical reasons, it may take some time for
all documents to appear on the website of the Register.
On this basis, Parliament considers your application handled and the
procedure closed. Should you wish to submit any new requests for specific
Parliament documents, [2]please do not hesitate to come back to us.
Best regards,
TRANSPARENCY UNIT
European Parliament
Directorate-General for the Presidency
Directorate-General for Interinstitutional Affairs and Legislative
Coordination
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