05.03.2015 - 01:19 [ Statewatch ]

EU: European Ombudsman: Letter to Claude Moraes MEP, Chair of the LIBE Committee, concerning the Opinion of the European Parliament‘s Legal Service concerning Europol and refusal of US authorities to give the Ombudsman access to a document concerning

I also understand that Parliament‘s Legal Service nevertheless takes the view that Europol was entitled to refuse to allow me to inspect the relevant document without the consent of the American authorities. I do not find this at all convincing. In my view, the Ombudsman‘s Statute clearly gives the Ombudsman the right to inspect documents like the one at issue in the Europol case….