Missing COMdocs - the official explanation

Patrick Overy, University of Exeter EDC, says that he's just received this explanation from the EUR-Lex helpdesk:

"This is a problem in the loading chain from the Secretariat General toEUR-Lex. The technical team tells us (since 2 weeks) that it will be solved very soon ... For the moment you can see only the titles of these recent COM documents on the Parliament website, at the bottom of this page, or on Prelex you can search by date.

Sorry for these inconveniences !"

Inconveniences?? We can't access some of the Commission's most important documents for more than a month and they describe it as an inconvenience!! What IS the world coming to?

Still no COMdocs

Here we are a week later and there's no new COMs been added to the EUR-Lex page, with the latest addition still 30 April - that's four weeks ago!!

What's going on? Maybe it's true that the Commission has gone into hibernation until the future of the Lisbon Treaty is known - a suggestion made in the International Herald Tribune, which I stumbled on via the EU Referendum blog.

COMdoc scandal

How is it possible that, on 22 May, the latest addition to the list of COMdocs on EUR-lex is dated 30 April?
Where are the texts of the COMdocs announced in Commission press releases over the past three weeks?
Why has the situation become so appallingly bad recently? This is scandalous!

Access to documents

The European Ombudsman has told Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee that the current system of access to documents "suffers from a lack of clarity and a shortage of resources, and needs to provide better access." Read the EP press release.