UK Membership of EU: Disclosure of Information

(asked on 6th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :

To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, with reference to the position paper, Confidentiality and Access to Documents, published on 21 August 2017, what contingency planning there has been in the event that EU institutions refuse to provide guarantees about the use by the EU of information produced while the UK was an EU member state after the UK leaves the EU in the event that there is no deal.


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Robin Walker Portrait
Robin Walker
This question was answered on 13th October 2017

The UK’s position is that official information and documents originating from the EU, the UK or another EU Member State produced or exchanged prior to withdrawal should continue to be protected as now. The EU position, as expressed in their paper on ‘Issues relating to the Functioning of the Union Institutions, Agencies and Bodies,’ is consistent with this. The EU and its Member States will continue to be bound by their current obligations on confidentiality and access to documents.

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