CELEX: 62018TN0712
Language: en
Date: 2018-12-03 00:00:00
Title: Case T-712/18: Action brought on 3 December 2018 — Umweltinstitut München v Commission

4.2.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 44/77
            
         
      Action brought on 3 December 2018 — Umweltinstitut München v Commission
      (Case T-712/18)
      (2019/C 44/103)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Umweltinstitut München — Verein zur Erforschung und Verminderung der Umweltbelastung eV (Munich, Germany) (represented by: M. John, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Commission
      
         Form of order sought
      
      The applicant claims that the Court should:
      
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                  annul the defendant’s negative decision of 2 October 2018 (C(2018) 6539 final).
               
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
      
      By means of the present action, the applicant seeks annulment of the Commission’s negative decision of 2 October 2018 definitively refusing the applicant access to the documents pertaining to the first meeting of the CETA Joint Committee, which took place on 26 and 27 March 2018.
      In support of the action, the applicant relies on the following plea in law:
      Infringement of Article 15(3) TFEU in conjunction with Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council, (1) since the defendant was not entitled, pursuant to Article 4 of Regulation No 1049/2001, to refuse (partial) access to the requested documents.
      
         (1)  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).