Though it had been under discussion earlier, the Working Paper Section was created spontaneously when Achim Berge wanted to make his Master Thesis available to a broader public. Therefore, at the moment it only features one submission and the layout has not been elaborated. Hopefully, other submissions will follow.
Serious submissions are always welcome.
Achim specifically asks for comments. This thesis is the most thorough legal analysis of the Commission's proposal that I have come across yet. It addresses a host of problems related with the proposal and offers a lot of ideas to improve the proposal. On the other hand, there is a potential risk that few such improvements will be made and even that some new and unjustified restrictions will be introduced. Since 1993 the situation changed as far as public access to documents is subject to rules giving the citizens a written basis for access.