Rights of the Individual

The European institutions and bodies make decisions and adopt legislation that affect the lives of all citizens in European Member States. As a citizen you have the right to know why, how and who is involved in making these decisions and laws. Factsheet 4 explains your right of access to the documents prepared in these activities.

Opinion on the Proposal for a Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 273/2004 on drug precursors and the Proposal for a Regulation amending Council Regulation (EC) No 111/2005 laying down rules for the monitoring of trade between the Community and third countries in drug precursors

Opinion of 13 December 2012 the European Data Protection Supervisor on the Proposal for a Regulation on the statute and funding of European political parties and European political foundations

EDPS comments concerning the plans of the European Board of National Archivists (EBNA) and the European Archives Group (EAG) to prepare a code of conduct for the archives sector to address the application of data protection requirements, taking into account the specificities of the sector.

Opinion on the Amendment to the Commission proposal COM(2011) 628 final/2 for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the financing, management and monitoring of the common agricultural policy