Access to Information in the European Union; A Comparative Analysis of EC and Member State Legislation

The authors of this book try to achieve two goals. On the one hand, to provide for a detailed and useful overview of EC and Member State legislation in the field of access to information. On the other hand, to highlight the similarities and differences between national legislation of different Member States on the one hand, and between the EC rules and the national legislation on the other hand. This book addresses two questions in particular: are there any general differences between the ‘old’ and the ‘new’ Member States? And, secondly, is the EU more or less transparent than the ‘average’ Member State?