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EUROPEAN
COMMISSION
SECRETARIAT-GENERAL
Directorate B
SG-B-2
Openness, access to documents, relations with civil
society
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Brussels,
24 May
2002
SGB2/MAB/ig/D(2002)
330194
Mr Walter KEIM
Torshaugvej 2C
N-7020 Trondheim
By e-mail :walter.keim@gmail.com
Subject: National
freedom of information
Dear
Mr. Keim,
Thank
you for your e-mail of 26 April 2002 to President Prodi, who has asked me to reply
on his behalf, as was
already the case with your e-mail of 18 April 2002 on
the same subject.
In
this respect, may I remind you of my
letter dated 8 May 2002, in reply to your e-mail to
President Prodi dated 18
April 2002. I must reiterate
what was said in that letter. Even if the Commission shares your view,
that
access to official information should be granted to citizens, it is
beyond the
Commission’s remit to take any form of action against Member States
that fail
to pass laws on freedom of information and there is no way in which the
EU
institutions could compel Germany to adopt such rules.
The
answer to your preceding e-mail has
been placed in the President’s register, as will this one, and I,
therefore,
consider correspondence on this subject closed.
Yours
sincerely,
Maria
de los
Angeles Benitez
Head of Unit