Kris ShrishakJournalists please consider signing this letter that Alexander Fanta and Jean Comte have put together to address the systemic delays and broad application of exception to not provides access to documents under Regulation 1049/2001 (FOI law).
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fhusFP45KVZp1X5LgBQONqKmNZYdSsDmt86y3RuVLVk/edit?tab=t.0
If you are not sure why this is an important problem, check the talk I gave last year at 38th Chaos Communication Congress (38C3) in Hamburg: https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-transparency-not-from-the-european-commission
To understand how bad the delays are, compare with DB
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Open Letter Reg 1049
Dear Commissioner Šefčovič, as journalists, we believe it is our duty to hold those in positions of power accountable. Access to documents, as guaranteed in Article 42 of the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights and Article 15 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and implemented...