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Transparency and access-to-documents cases across the EU and its member states.
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28 September 2026
The Tromsø Convention on Access to Official Documents
The Council of Europe Convention on Access to Official Documents — known as the Tromsø Convention, catalogued as CETS No. 205 —…
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21 September 2026
MEP Allowances and the Limits of EU Document Access
Few disputes have tested the boundary between EU transparency law and data protection as directly as the litigation over the allowances of…
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15 September 2026What Public Records Show About a Gambling Operator
Anyone can look up whether a gambling company holds a licence. Far fewer people go on to read what the licence file…
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14 September 2026
Environmental Information: The Aarhus Convention Route
A treaty dedicated to environmental openness The Aarhus Convention, formally the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access…
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7 September 2026
ClientEarth v Commission: Impact Assessment Access
When the Court of Justice of the European Union delivered its Grand Chamber judgment in ClientEarth v Commission, Case C-57/16 P, on…
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31 August 2026
France's Access Law and the CADA Advisory Route
From the 1978 law to the CRPA France granted a general right of access to administrative documents with the law of 17…
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24 August 2026
Trade Secrecy on Trial: ACTA, TTIP and Public Scrutiny
Trade negotiations are the hardest test an access-to-documents regime faces. Negotiators argue, with some force, that a public negotiating position is a…
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17 August 2026
The European Ombudsman and Document Access Complaints
When an EU institution refuses access to a document, the requester faces a choice written directly into Regulation 1049/2001: challenge the refusal…
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10 August 2026
Sweden's Principle of Public Access to Documents
A principle with a 1766 pedigree Sweden's offentlighetsprincipen, the principle of public access to official documents, is the oldest legal regime of…
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3 August 2026
FOI Request Platforms in Europe: How Open Requests Work
For most of its history, freedom of information was exercised in private. A requester wrote to an authority, the authority answered that…