Non-paper

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Non-paper (also non-paper , or aide-mémoire , dt. "Non-paper") is a non -sanctioned and thus officially not be cited publication.

diplomacy

In the diplomatic parlance of the European Union , the term includes documents that are informally submitted by one actor in order to test the acceptance of proposals or draft contracts among the other parties. If such a paper meets with resistance, it can be withdrawn at any time because it is not an official document but a non-binding discussion paper. One example is the concept presented by Germany and France in November 2019 for organizing a conference on the future of Europe .

A non-paper can also lay down the essential content of an oral demarche in diplomatic correspondence . The non-paper is written on paper without a letterhead and does not contain a heading, entry or closing form, date, signature or official seal in order to avoid the weight of a formal written declaration and to prevent the paper as a document from being passed on to one of the parties involved as the declaring party or the recipient is officially attributable. However, the fact that a non-paper is in writing is intended to ensure that the interlocutor can forward the essential content of the oral demarche to his government without transmission errors.

politics

In contrast to official information, non-papers from an authority are only drafts and notes that should not become part of a process and are therefore not publicly accessible according to the Freedom of Information Act (IFG) ( Section 2 No. 1 IFG). Because of their unofficial or provisional character, they are informal, but not confidential , but are not commented on publicly by their author.

The contents of a non-paper reflect a discourse and future-oriented hypotheses and ideas consciously without the claim to develop completed scientific arguments in a finalized form. Rather, they are to be understood as an invitation to reflection, to debate, to contradict and to grapple with developments and perspectives.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Non-Paper, Nonpaper, das duden.de, accessed on July 17, 2020.
  2. ↑ British government submits new Brexit papers to the EU on Die Zeit , September 19, 2019.
  3. ↑ Martin Große Hüttmann : Nonpaper (also: Non-Paper) in: Große Hüttmann, Wehling: Das Europalexikon. Bonn, 3rd edition 2020.
  4. ^ Services of General Economic Interest and State Aid Non-Paper of the EU Commission, November 12, 2002.
  5. ^ Conference on the Future of Europe: Franco-German non-paper on key questions and guidelines politico.eu, 2019.
  6. ↑ Information for diplomatic correspondence EGO 16-3 on § 16 GGO , accessed on July 17, 2020.
  7. ↑ Manuel Bewarder: Non Paper: Documents that officially do not exist December 3, 2018.
  8. ↑ cf. Federal Ministry of Economics: Position paper on the target image of the banking union BMF - non-paper.
  9. ↑ René Höltschi: Does a German move unblock the EU banking union - or does it just lead to a coalition dispute? NZZ , November 6, 2019.
  10. ↑ cf. Jan-Martin Wiarda: Three funding lines again? February 10, 2020.
  11. ↑ cf. Katharina Nill, Simon Grand, Christoph Weckerle: Narrative Strategies for Creative Economies Discussion: Non-Paper III, Zurich and Berlin, April 2019.