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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10670

4 August 2012
Contents Publication in full By article 25 / 25
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) transparency
Demand for access to documents still rising

Brussels, 03/08/2012 (Agence Europe) - The 2012 annual report on public access to documents, released on 3 August, shows 6,447 requests were made for European Commission documents in 2011, compared with 6,361 in 2010. In 2001, when the current rules came into force, just 450 requests were received. 2011's relatively small increase compared to previous years suggests that requests are starting to stabilise, the Commission says, perhaps as the right to access documents becomes firmly...