MIL-OSI Europe: Written question – Protection of classified information within the EU – E-001838/2024

Question for written answer  E-001838/2024/rev.1
to the Commission
Rule 144
Marieke Ehlers (PfE)

We MEPs were informed that access to the report from the Commission to the Council on the assessment of third countries’ level of cooperation on readmission in 2023 (COM(2024) 340 final) was restricted – as is clearly stated on the document itself.

Nevertheless, we were able to find the document on the internet, on the Statewatch website. The following questions thus arise:

• 1.Why do MEPs have to go to a special reading room, without their mobile phones, when the document is openly available online?
• 2.What safeguards and processes does the Commission use to ensure that restricted documents are not leaked?
• 3.Is the Commission considering taking action against the Statewatch website and does it strive to ensure that restricted-access EU documents are not published online, whether that be by Statewatch or any other organisation, person or entity?

Submitted: 26.9.2024