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SUMMARIES OF SELECTED STATEMENTS
The Ombudsman regularly publishes statements (in Danish) on certain types of
cases on www.ombudsmanden.dk and on www.retsinformation.dk, the official
legal information system of the Danish state.
Summaries are provided below (by ministerial area) of the statements which
have been published on cases concluded in 2014.
A. MINISTRY OF EMPLOYMENT
No statements on cases concluded in 2014 have been published.
B. MINISTRY OF BUSINESS AND GROWTH
The following statements on cases concluded in 2014 have been published:
2014-13. USE OF THE CIVIL SERVICE FOR AN INFORMATION CAMPAIGN ON A REFERENDUM REGARDING THE UNIFIED PATENT COURT
The Ombudsman received a complaint from a Member of the European Parliament on behalf of the organisations PROSA, NOAH and the People’s Movement against the EU regarding the information campaign by the Ministry of
Business and Growth leading up to the referendum on 25 May 2014 on the EU
Unified Patent Court.
The organisations did not consider the contents of the information campaign to
be neutral and were of the opinion that the Government had misused the Civil
Service to campaign for the Government’s own stance regarding the referendum.
The Ombudsman did not find cause for opening an ombudsman investigation.
In the Ombudsman’s opinion, there was no prospect that by opening an ombudsman investigation he would be able to determine whether the Ministry had
disregarded the rules regulating information campaigns and the use of the Civil
Service in that context.
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