9 Jørgen Steen Sørensen Parliamentary Ombudsman Until now, the Ombudsman’s Annual Report has been published at the beginning of October in the year following the report year. This is late. With effect from the report year of 2014, the process has successfully been moved forward so that the Report will now be published already in April of the following year. We are very pleased with that. Hopefully, it will help make the Annual Report even more topical and relevant. WHAT HAS CHARACTERISED THE INSTITUTION IN 2014? Like any other year, 2014 at the Ombudsman institution was characterised by a multiplicity of tasks. The ongoing complaint cases, own-initiative cases, monitoring visits, the children’s sector, international cooperation, and optimising the institution’s work methods are just some of them. But when we ourselves look back on 2014, we probably think of two things in particular. One of them is the new Access to Public Administration Files Act which came into force on 1 January 2014. The Act is a corner stone of an open society, and the Ombudsman is really the last stop on the way as independent safeguard for compliance with the Act. It has therefore been important to us to make a good start, and we made thorough preparations all through the latter part of 2013. Among other things, we established a new concept for the way in which we process the cases.