EU: Proposed Commission changes to Regulation on access to documents fail to meet Lisbon Treaty commitments http://www.statewatch.org/news/2011/mar/05eu-access-regulation-com-amend-mar-11.htm

The public and civil society have a right to know what is being discussed during the EU legislative process- Abolish the "space to think": Article 4.3 is used to deny access to documents concerning measures "under discussion" because it could "seriously undermine the decision-making process". On the contrary Article 4.3 "seriously undermines" democracy because the public and civil society have no right to know what is being discussed until after a measure is adopted (and sometimes not even then)- the Commission used Article 4.3 to refuse access to documents in over 25% of initial applications and for the Council the figure was 39.2% (plus an undefined proportion of the 28.2% refused for multiple reasons) [2009 Annual Reports]

[For those who have read my blog for last efw years,i hav exposed the EU's NEOCONOPTICON AGENDA,AND APPARATUS,THRU STATEWTACH,AND NEOCONOPTICON BLOG AND TRANSNATIONAL INSTITUTE,but yesterday is earched for it on youtube,and actually found BEN HAYES,the main man behind the exposing ,speaking about NEOCONOPTICON,RATHER LENGTHY,BUT WELL WORTH WATCHING...SEE>A New Arms Race, With All The Weapons Pointing Inwards The EU as a 'Security State' (Part 1 of 6) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VKqo2yubOk