CELEX: 62019CN0619
Language: en
Date: 2019-08-19 00:00:00
Title: Case C-619/19: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesverwaltungsgericht (Germany) lodged on 19 August 2019 — Land Baden-Württemberg v D.R.

2.12.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 406/9
            
         
      Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesverwaltungsgericht (Germany) lodged on 19 August 2019 — Land Baden-Württemberg v D.R.
      (Case C-619/19)
      (2019/C 406/14)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Referring court
      
      Bundesverwaltungsgericht
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Land Baden-Württemberg
      
         Defendant: D.R.
      
         Questions referred
      
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Is point (e) of the first subparagraph of Article 4(1) of Directive 2003/4/EC (1) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2003 on public access to environmental information and repealing Council Directive 90/313/EEC (the Environmental Information Directive) to be interpreted as meaning that the term ‘internal communications’ covers all communications which do not leave the internal sphere of an authority which is required to provide information?
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Is the temporal scope of the protection of ‘internal communications’ under point (e) of the first subparagraph of Article 4(1) of the Environmental Information Directive unlimited?
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  If Question 2 is answered in the negative: Does the protection of ‘internal communications’ under point (e) of the first subparagraph of Article 4(1) of the Environmental Information Directive apply only until the authority required to provide information has taken a decision or completed any other administrative process?
               
            
         (1)  OJ 2003, L 41, p. 26.