CELEX: 62014TA0424
Language: en
Date: 2015-11-13 00:00:00
Title: Joined Cases T-424/14 and T-425/14: Judgment of the General Court of 13 November 2015 — ClientEarth v Commission (Access to documents — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 — Draft impact assessment report, impact assessment report and opinion of the Impact Assessment Board — Refusal to grant access — Exception relating to the protection of the decision-making process — Duty to state reasons — Obligation to carry out a specific and individual examination — Overriding public interest)

11.1.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 7/24
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 13 November 2015 — ClientEarth v Commission
   (Joined Cases T-424/14 and T-425/14) (1)
   
   ((Access to documents - Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 - Draft impact assessment report, impact assessment report and opinion of the Impact Assessment Board - Refusal to grant access - Exception relating to the protection of the decision-making process - Duty to state reasons - Obligation to carry out a specific and individual examination - Overriding public interest))
   (2016/C 007/33)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: ClientEarth (London, United Kingdom) (represented by: O. Brouwer, F. Heringa and J. Wolfhagen, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: F. Clotuche-Duvieusart and M. Konstantinidis, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Applications for annulment of (i) the Commission’s decision of 1 April 2014 refusing to grant access to an Impact Assessment report for a proposed binding instrument setting a strategic framework for risk-based inspection and surveillance in relation to EU environmental legislation and an opinion of the Impact Assessment Board and (ii) the Commission’s decision of 3 April 2014 refusing to grant access to a draft Impact Assessment report relating to access to justice in environmental matters at Member State level in the field of EU environmental policy and an opinion of the Impact Assessment Board.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the actions;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders ClientEarth to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 303, 8.9.2014.