This would to a large extent correspond to the practice of the national parliaments. The Treaty should establish a rule whereby the first reading of a proposal for a legislative act should take place at an open Council meeting. At the same time a procedure for decisions on public access to the subsequent negotiations should be inserted in the Treaty. Finally, the rule of publication of the vote of the Council should be inserted in the Treaty. Finally, the insertion of provisions on publication of proposals and decisions in pillar 3 is proposed.
Today there are no such rules.
The Union shall be founded on the European Communities, supplemented by the policies and forms of cooperation established by this Treaty. Its task shall be to organize, in a manner demonstrating transparency , consistency and solidarity, relations between the Member States and between their pe oples. All natural or legal persons shall have access to any written text held by any Community institution or organ. The Council decides, according to the procedure in art. 189B and after consulting The Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, what information is not covered by the right of public access to documents referred to in paragraph 1 and for what reasons access to the information con cerned shall not be granted.