Brussels, 22/04/2008 (Agence Europe) - With the adoption, on Tuesday 22 April in Strasbourg, of the report by Anneli Jäätteenmäki (ALDE, Finland) on the statute of the European Ombudsman, the Parliament amended certain provisions governing access by the Ombudsman to information held by EU bodies and evidence given to him by EU civil servants.
Nikiforos Diamandouros, Ombudsman, had set out his recommended amendments in a letter addressed in July 2006 to the president of the European...