[open-government] Free Software amendment in Budget Discharge vote carried today!

Thu May 10 17:16:24 UTC 2012

Amendment 29 by MEP Bart Staes to the 2010 Budget Discharge
(A7-0120/2012) was carried in the European Parliament today: 

	101a. expects a full report on how Parliament's Free Software
projects have developed with regards to use and users in Parliament,
citizen interaction and procurement activities; suggests an
investigation of Parliament's obligations under Rule 103 with regard to
Free Software and Open Standards;

Rule 103 says:

	Rule 103  : Transparency of Parliament's activities
	Parliament shall ensure that its activities are conducted with
the utmost transparency, in accordance with the second paragraph of
Article 1 of the Treaty on European Union, Article 15 of the Treaty on
the Functioning of the European Union and Article 42 of the Charter of
Fundamental Rights of the European Union. 

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+RULES-E
P+20120417+RULE-103+DOC+XML+V0//EN&language=EN&navigationBar=YES

Best regards.

//Erik

Erik Josefsson
Advisor on Internet Policies
Greens/EFA Group
<http://www.greens-efa.eu/36-details/josefsson-erik-138.html> 
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