Comparative Study on Access to Documents (and Confidentiality Rules) in International Trade Negotiations
Study
10-04-2015
It is extremely difficult to strengthen parliamentary oversight of the EU’s trade policies without clear and predictable rules and procedures for the EP to access relevant information from the Commission and the Council. This study provides an overview on the rules guaranteeing access to information in international trade negotiations both in the EU and in selected third countries. It evaluates the existing arrangements on access to information by Parliament in view of the provisions included in the Treaty of Lisbon, international norms and agreements, EU case-law, and similar rules, arrangements and practices in a group of national parliaments.
Study
External author
Andreas MAURER
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- access to EU information
- access to information
- America
- Asia and Oceania
- Brazil
- comparative study
- documentation
- economic geography
- EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
- EU institutions and European civil service
- EU Member State
- Europe
- European construction
- EUROPEAN UNION
- GEOGRAPHY
- India
- information and information processing
- institutional structure
- interinstitutional relations (EU)
- international trade
- national parliament
- negotiation of an agreement (EU)
- parliament
- parliamentary procedure
- parliamentary proceedings
- parliamentary scrutiny
- political geography
- POLITICS
- Russia
- TRADE
- trade agreement
- trade agreement (EU)
- United States