Press Release: Requests for Commission documents reach record high

The European Commission 2014 annual report on public access to documents, adopted on the 8 October 2014, showed that the Commission dealt with more access to documents requests than ever before during 2013. There were 6,525 requests – a rise of 8.5% on the 6,014 document requests in 2012. This compares with just 450 requests when the current rules entered into force in 2001. The Commission handled around twice as many requests as the Council and European Parliament combined, and granted access in more than four out of five cases.

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