Legal provisions of COM(2011)137 - Amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents

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dossier COM(2011)137 - Amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents.
document COM(2011)137 EN
date March 21, 2011

Contents

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 is amended as follows:

1. In Article 1, point (a) is replaced by the following:

"(a) to define the principles, conditions and limits on grounds of public or private interest governing the right of public access to documents of the institutions of the European Union, as defined in Article 3 (c), provided for in Article 15(3) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union in such a way as to grant the public the widest possible access to documents,"

2. In Article 2, paragraph 3 is replaced by the following:

"3. This Regulation shall apply to all documents held by an institution, as defined in Article 3 (c), that is to say, documents drawn up or received by it and in its possession, in all areas of activity of the European Union. As regards the Court of Justice of the European Union, the European Central Bank and the European Investment Bank, this Regulation shall apply only when they exercise their administrative tasks."

3. In Article 3, the following point (c) is added:

"(c) institutions shall mean institutions, bodies, offices and agencies of the European Union, including the European External Action Service."

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.