Order — ECLI:EU:T:2014:182
Date: 2014-03-27
Language of the case: Spanish
Court formation: Seventh Chamber
Subject matter: Provisions governing the Institutions;Access to documents
Procedure: Action for annulment - unfounded
Origin: Spain

Order of the General Court of 27 March 2014 — Ecologistas en Acción v Commission (Case T-603/11) 1 (Access to documents — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 — Documents relating to the carrying out of an industrial project on a site protected under Directive 92/43/EEC — Documents originating from a Member State — Opposition by the Member State — Refusal of access — Exception relating to the protection of the purpose of inspections, investigations and audits — Exception relating to the protection of court proceedings — Environmental information — Regulation (EC) No 1367/2006 — Action manifestly lacking any foundation in law) Language of the case: Spanish Parties Applicant: Ecologistas en Acción-CODA (Madrid, Spain) (represented by: J. Doreste Hernández, lawyer) Defendant: European Commission (represented by: P. Costa de Oliveira and I. Martínez del Peral, acting as Agents) Intervening party in support of the defendant: Kingdom of Spain (represented initially by S. Centeno Huerta, then by M. J. García-Valdecasas Dorrego, abogados del Estado) Re: Application for annulment of the Commission’s decision of 23 September 2011 refusing to grant the applicant access to certain documents concerning approval of the project to construct a port in Granadilla (Tenerife, Spain), sent by the Spanish authorities to the Commission pursuant to Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora (OJ 1992 L 206, p. 7) Operative part of the order 1. The action is dismissed. 2. Ecologistas en Acción-CODA is ordered to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission. 3. The Kingdom of Spain is ordered to bear its own costs. ____________ ____________ 1 OJ C 25, 28.1.2012.