CELEX: 62016TA0307
Language: en
Date: 2018-02-27 00:00:00
Title: Case T-307/16: Judgment of the General Court of 27 February 2018 — CEE Bankwatch Network v Commission (Access to documents — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 — Documents relating to a Commission decision on granting a Euratom loan in support of the Ukraine safety upgrade program of nuclear power units — Partial refusal of access — Exception concerning the protection of the public interest in the field of international relations — Exception concerning the protection of commercial interests — Overriding public interest — Regulation (EC) No 1367/2006 — Application to documents relating to decisions taken under the EAEC Treaty)

16.4.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 134/19
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 27 February 2018 — CEE Bankwatch Network v Commission
   (Case T-307/16) (1)
   
   ((Access to documents - Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 - Documents relating to a Commission decision on granting a Euratom loan in support of the Ukraine safety upgrade program of nuclear power units - Partial refusal of access - Exception concerning the protection of the public interest in the field of international relations - Exception concerning the protection of commercial interests - Overriding public interest - Regulation (EC) No 1367/2006 - Application to documents relating to decisions taken under the EAEC Treaty))
   (2018/C 134/26)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: CEE Bankwatch Network (Prague, Czech Republic) (represented by: C. Kiss, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: C. Zadra, F. Clotuche-Duvieusart and C. Cunniffe, acting as Agents)
   
      Intervener in support of the defendant: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (represented by: initially M. Holt and D. Robertson, and subsequently S. Brandon, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application based on Article 263 TFEU and seeking annulment of Commission Decision C(2016) 2319 final of 15 April 2016 refusing, on the basis of 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), access to several documents relating to Commission Decision C(2013) 3496 final of 24 June 2013 on granting a Euratom loan in support of the Ukraine safety upgrade program of nuclear power units.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders CEE Bankwatch Network to bear its own costs and pay those incurred by the European Commission;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 305, 22.8.2016.