Commission Press Releases available on the Internet
In a further effort to make the European Union's activities more transparent for the citizen, the Spokesman's Service of the European Commission has opened a new service on the Internet giving easy access to its daily press releases through the RAPID database. The RAPID database contains press releases from the European Commission, as well as from several other European Institutions. These include the Council of Ministers, the Court of Justice of the European Communities, the Court of Auditors, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions. The service is free of charge and access is immediately available through a simple login procedure. RAPID offers the press material within one hour after it is made available to journalists in Brussels at the traditional daily midday press briefing of the Commission's Spokesman. Most Commission documents are immediately available in English and French and are translated as quickly as possible into the other European Union languages.