CELEX: 62016TA0852
Language: en
Date: 2018-02-07 00:00:00
Title: Case T-852/16: Judgment of the General Court of 7 February 2018 — Access Info Europe v European Commission (Access to documents — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 — EU-Turkey statements of 8 and 18 March 2016 — Implementation by the European Union or by the Member States of the measures concerned — Documents drawn up or received by the legal service of an institution — Legal advice — Analyses of the legality of the measures provided for in connection with the implementation of the EU-Turkey statement of 18 March 2016 — Refusal to grant access — Article 4(1)(a) of Regulation No 1049/2001 — Exception relating to the protection of the public interest in respect of international relations — Second indent of Article 4(2) of Regulation No 1049/2001 — Exception relating to the protection of court proceedings — Exception relating to the protection of legal advice)

19.3.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 104/39
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 7 February 2018 — Access Info Europe v European Commission
   (Case T-852/16) (1)
   
   ((Access to documents - Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 - EU-Turkey statements of 8 and 18 March 2016 - Implementation by the European Union or by the Member States of the measures concerned - Documents drawn up or received by the legal service of an institution - Legal advice - Analyses of the legality of the measures provided for in connection with the implementation of the EU-Turkey statement of 18 March 2016 - Refusal to grant access - Article 4(1)(a) of Regulation No 1049/2001 - Exception relating to the protection of the public interest in respect of international relations - Second indent of Article 4(2) of Regulation No 1049/2001 - Exception relating to the protection of court proceedings - Exception relating to the protection of legal advice))
   (2018/C 104/50)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Access Info Europe (Madrid, Spain) (represented by: O. Brouwer, E. Raedts and J. Wolfhagen, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: A. Buchet and M. Konstantinidis, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application based on Article 263 TFEU seeking annulment of Commission Decision C(2016) 6030 final of 19 September 2016 confirming the refusal to grant the applicant access to documents from the Commission’s Legal Service which purportedly concern the legality of the measures adopted by the European Union and its Member States in implementing the actions set out in the statement of the Heads of State or Government of the European Union of 18 March 2016, adopted following their meeting with the Turkish Prime Minister on the same day.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Access Info Europe to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 53, 20.2.2017.