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Robyn, I'm pretty sure that any report produced by a working group set up by SCAN, or by one of its seven sister committees, is not a matter of public record until it has been adopted by the committee to which the working group reports. The Scientific Committees themselves have a legislative basis (Commission Decision 97/579/EC) and their agendas, minutes and opinions are published on the DG SANCO web site. Each committee may create ad hoc working parties of independent experts to deal with specific questions that arise, but they are regarded as part of the internal procedures of the committee. The role of a working group is to examine scientific evidence and to assist its parent committee in reaching an opinion on a particular issue. It is the committee itself which takes responsibility for the final report, and the contribution of the working group is reflected in the opinion adopted by the committee. I believe that issues of confidentiality and protection of independent expression of scientific opinion may also be involved in the practice of not publishing the papers of the working groups. Of course, applications to see the documents can always be made under the usual transparency procedures, but I don't know whether they would be likely to succeed. Best regards, Chris >From: "R.Allen" <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: [log in to unmask] >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Standing committee for animal nutrition >Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 14:18:28 +0100 (BST) > >Dear all > >Does anybody know if there is open access to reports of >working groups who feed into the Standing Commmittee for >Animal Nutrition and, if so, how copies can be obtained? > >I am away on holiday next week, so there is no urgency >about this one, but I would greatly appreciate any help. > >Kind regards > >Robyn Allen >Information Assistant >Euro Info Centre Humberside > >[log in to unmask] > Chris Lamb Documentation Officer Technical Assistance Office Euro Info Centre Network 70 rue Montoyer B-1000 Bruxelles Tel: +32 2 287 1553 Fax: +32 2 230 0520 Email: [log in to unmask] ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%