Monday 11 October 2010

Commission guilty of 'maladministration' over car company letters

EUobserver reports that the European Commission has been found guilty of ‘maladministration' by the EU ombudsman for a second time for having refused to release correspondence between itself and European car manufacturers.
"By failing to grant full access to the parts of the ‘briefings' relating to carbon dioxide emissions from cars, the commission committed an instance of maladministration," the ombudsman, Nikiforos Diamandouros, said in a 15-page assessment of the EU executive's stonewalling over the issue.

Read more here: http://euobserver.com/9/31002/?rk=1

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