Transparency: Commission’s transparency practice at an all-time low

A request from the Pesticide Action Network to DG SANTE for documents on endocrine disruptors policy in 2016 was refused in 2017 because the policy was still “ongoing” and disclosure would harm the decision-making process (Regulation 1049/2001, Art. 4.3, first part). While a range of less relevant documents (letters to the Commissioner, invitations, already published documents) was partly disclosed, every document regarding DG SANTE officers and their discussions within or with other DG’s was censored based on this “ongoing policy” argument. E-mails which we received in the past if we requested documents were even not included in the SANTE-list of available documents. We simply get nothing relevant. Commission’s transparency is at an all-time low.