15.12.2000 Official Journal of the European Communities L 316/69 (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) EUROPEAN FOUNDATION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF LIVING AND WORKING CONDITIONS EUROPEAN FOUNDATION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF LIVING AND WORKING CONDITIONS DECISION of 11 February 2000 establishing a code of good administrative behaviour (2000/791/EC) THE EUROPEAN FOUNDATION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF LIVING AND WORKING CONDITIONS, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1365/75 of 26 May 1975 on the creation of a European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions and amending Regulation (EEC) No 1947/93, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1860/76 of 29 June 1976 laying down the Conditions of Employment of Staff of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions and amending Regulations (EEC) No 680/ 87, (EEC) No 1238/80 and (EEC) No 510/82, Having regard to the provisions on openness in the Amsterdam Treaty, and in particular Article 1 of the Treaty on European Union and Article 21 of the European Community Treaty, Having regard to the report of the Committee on Petitions of the European Parliament on its own activities in 1996 to 1997 ("), in calling for a code of good administrative behav- iour, Having regard to the Resolution of the European Parliament of 16 July 1998 on the Annual Report on the activities of the European Ombudsman in 1997 (C4-0270/98) (%), Having regard to the own initiative inquiry of the European Ombudsman into the existence and the public accessibility, in the different Community institutions and bodies, of a code of good administrative behaviour for officials in their relations with the public, () A4 — 0190/97. () O] C 292, 21.9.1998, p. 168. Having regard to the Resolution of the European Parliament of 15 April 1999 on the Annual Report on the activities of the European Ombudsman in 1998 (C4-0138/99), Having regard to the existing Code of conduct concerning public access to Foundation documents, contained in the Decision of the Administrative Board dated 21 November 1997 (), Whereas the Amsterdam Treaty has explicitly introduced the concept of openness into the Treaty on European Union, by stating that it marks a new stage in the process of creating an ever closer union in which decisions are taken as openly as possible and as closely as possible to the citizen, Whereas, in order to bring the administration closer to the citizen and to guarantee a better quality of administration, a code should be adopted which contains the basic principles of good administrative behaviour for officials when dealing with the public, Whereas such a code is useful for both staff members, as it will inform them in a detailed manner of the rules they have to follow when dealing with the public, and the citizen, as it will provide her/him with information on the standard of conduct they are entitled to expect in dealings with the Community administrations, Whereas such a code can only be efficient if it is a publicly accessible document for the citizen, and thus published in the form of a decision like the abovementioned Decision on public access to Foundation documents, () O] L 296, 17.11.1999, p. 25.