Access to documents

Legal basis

Article 255 of the Treaty establishing the European Community, as amended by the Treaty of Amsterdam, states that "Any citizen of the Union, and any natural or legal person residing or having its registered office in a Member State, shall have a right of access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents".

Article 15(3) of the consolidated version of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union provides for a right of access to documents of the Union's institutions, bodies, offices, and agencies. The same right is recognised in Article 42 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU.

Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of the European Parliament and the Council of 30 May 2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents (OJ L 145 of 31.5.2001, p. 43) governs this fundamental right of access to documents.

In line with Article 23 (1) of Regulation (EC) No 58/2003 laying down the statute for executive agencies to be entrusted with certain tasks in the management of Community programmes, the TEN-T Executive Agency has adopted on 30 September 2008 detailed rules for the implementation of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 (Decision SC(2008)001).

Procedure

Requests for access to TEN-T EA documents may be submitted in any EU official language. However, in order to facilitate the processing of your request, you are kindly invited to submit your request in English or French and to use the related application form which is available in English and French.

Any request for access to documents must be sent in writing:

• by email to TENT-AGENCY@ec.europa.eu

or

• by regular mail to

TEN-T Executive Agency

Access to Documents

W910

B-1049 Brussels

The privacy statement with regard to the processing of personal data related to requests for access to documents is available here.

Further information about public access to documents is available on Europa (European Commission) at http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/access_documents/index_en.htm