CELEX: 62011TB0603
Language: en
Date: 2014-03-27 00:00:00
Title: Case T-603/11: Order of the General Court of 27 March 2014  — Ecologistas en Acción v Commission (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)

26.5.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 159/24
            
         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))
   2014/C 159/33
   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.