1. OJ (2001) L 145/43.
2. See, for example, M. Maes, ‘The “New” Regulation on Access to Documents’, in V. Deckmyn, ed., Increasing Transparency in the European Union? (Maastricht, European Institute of Public Administration 2002) pp. 199–208; and S. Peers, ‘The New Regulation on Access to Documents: A Critical Analysis’ (Queen’s Papers on Europeanisation, No 6/2002) available at: Recently, also, M.E. de Leeuw, ‘The Regulation on Public Access to European Parliament, Council and Commission Documents in the European Union: are Citizens better off?’, 28 European Law Review (2003) pp. 324–348. In Spanish, see my monograph: Teoría y realidad de la transparencia pública en la Unión Europea (forthcoming, 2005).
3. On case law, see, S. Peers, ‘From Maastricht to Laeken: The Political Agenda of Openness and Transparency in the European Union’, in Deckmyn, ed., supra n. 2, at pp. 7–32; and C. Naôme, ‘The Case-Law of the Court of Justice and of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities on Transparency: From Carvel to Hautala II (1995–2001)’, idem, at pp. 147–198.
4. See, ECJ, judgment of 22 January 2004, Case C-353/01 P, Mattila v. Council and Commission, nyr.
5. I. Harden, ‘The European Ombudsman’s Efforts to increase Openness in the Union’, in Deckmyn, ed., supra n. 2, at pp. 123–146.