Overview
The 2014 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference decided:
- To provide public access to all input and output documents of all conferences and assemblies of the Union starting from the beginning of year 2015 unless where disclosure would cause potential harm to a legitimate private or public interest that outweighs the benefits of accessibility.
- To instruct the Council Working Group on Financial and Human resources, through the Council to:
i) continue to review document access policy in ITU to determine the extent to which documentation should be made publicly accessible and to prepare a draft document access policy for submission to Council;
ii) consider the necessity to establish a dedicated group for that purpose. - To instruct the Council Working Group on Financial and Human Resources, through the Council to transmit the proposed access policy to Council for its consideration and provisional approval and its implementation, as appropriate.
- To instruct and authorize Council to consider the report of the Council Working Group and as appropriate approve and implement the policy on an interim basis.
- To instruct the Council to submit the policy to 2018 Plenipotentiary Conference for final decision.
At its meeting on 5 February 2015, the Council Working Group on Financial and Human Resources resolved to create a dedicated group to review the document access policy.
Chairmanship : Mr Petko Kantchev (Bulgaria)