CELEX: C2005/031/39
Language: en
Date: 2005-02-05 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 23 November 2004 in Case T-84/03: Maurizio Turco v Council of the European Union (Openness — Public access to Council documents — Partial refusal of access — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 — Exceptions)

5.2.2005   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 31/20
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
   
   of 23 November 2004
   in Case T-84/03: Maurizio Turco v Council of the European Union (1)
   
   (Openness - Public access to Council documents - Partial refusal of access - Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 - Exceptions)
   (2005/C 31/39)
   Language of the case: English
   In Case T-84/03: Maurizio Turco, residing in Pulsano (Italy), represented by O.W. Brouwer, T. Janssens and C. Schillemans, lawyers, supported by Republic of Finland (Agents: T. Pynnä and A. Guimaraes-Purokoski, with an address for service in Luxembourg), Kingdom of Denmark (Agents: J. Liisberg initially and subsequently J. Molde, with an address for service in Luxembourg), and Kingdom of Sweden (Agents: A. Kruse and K. Wistrand, with an address for service in Luxembourg) against Council of the European Union (Agents: J.-C. Piris and M. Bauer), supported by United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Agent: C. Jackson, instructing P. Sales and J. Stratford, Barristers, with an address for service in Luxembourg) and Commission of the European Communities (Agents: M. Petite, C. Docksey and P. Aalto, with an address for service in Luxembourg) – application for annulment of the Council's decision of 19 December 2002 partially refusing the applicant access to certain documents appearing on the agenda of the Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting of 14 and 15 October 2002 – the Court of First Instance (Fifth Chamber), composed of: P. Lindh, President, R. García-Valdecasas and J.D. Cooke, Judges; I. Natsinas, Administrator, for the Registrar, has given a judgment on 23 November 2004, in which it:
   
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               Dismisses the action in so far as it concerns the refusal of access to the Council's legal opinion;
            
         
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               Declares that there is no need to adjudicate as to the remainder;
            
         
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               Orders the applicant and the Council each to bear half of the costs of the proceedings;
            
         
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               Orders the interveners to bear their own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 112 of 10.5.2003.