CELEX: 62009TN0467
Language: en
Date: 2009-11-19 00:00:00
Title: Case T-467/09: Action brought on 19 November 2009 — Stelzer v Commission

30.1.2010   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 24/60
            
         Action brought on 19 November 2009 — Stelzer v Commission
   (Case T-467/09)
   2010/C 24/107
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Dierk Stelzer (Berlin, Germany) (represented by: F. Weiland, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Commission of the European Communities
   
      Form of order sought
   
   
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               annul the decisions in the form of refusals by the Directorate-General Environment of the Commission of 6 August 2009 and the Secretariat-General of the Commission of 29 October 2009 (correct date must be 29 September 2009);
            
         
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               order the defendant to pay the applicant’s costs incurred out of court.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   The applicant contests in particular the Commission decision dated 29 October 2009, by which his second application for inspection of the compliance study on the transposition of Directive 2003/35/EC (1) was partially rejected.
   In support of its action the applicant claims that the reasons invoked by the defendant for the rejection of access to the document applied for, based on protection of the purpose of investigations (Article 4(2), third indent, of Regulation [EC] No 1049/2001 (2)) and on protection of the decision-making process (Article 4(3) of Regulation No 1049/2001) were erroneous. The applicant also claims that the request for partial access to the document applied for under Article 4(6) of Regulation No 1049/2001 was wrongly rejected. Furthermore there is an overwhelming public interest in the dissemination of the study in question. Finally the applicant complains that the defendant failed to comply with the obligation to state reasons.
   
      (1)  Directive 2003/35/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 May 2003 providing for public participation in respect of the drawing up of certain plans and programmes relating to the environment and amending with regard to public participation and access to justice Council Directives 85/337/EEC and 96/61/EC (OJ 2003 L 156, p. 17).
   
      (2)  Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents (OJ 2001 L 145, p. 43).