CELEX: 62011CO0208
Language: en
Date: 2012-02-15 00:00:00
Title: Order of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 15 February 2012.#Internationaler Hilfsfonds eV v European Commission.#Appeal — Access to documents — Action for annulment of the Commission’s decisions refusing access to documents concerning a contract for the co-financing of a medical aid programme in Kazakhstan — Action inadmissible because brought out of time — Incorrect determination of the moment from which the time allowed for bringing the action began to run.#Case C‑208/11 P.

Order of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 15 February 2012 — Internationaler Hilfsfond v Commission
      (Case C‑208/11 P)
      Appeal — Access to documents — Action for annulment of the Commission’s decisions refusing access to documents concerning a contract for the co-financing
         of a medical aid programme in Kazakhstan — Action inadmissible because brought out of time — Incorrect determination of the moment from which the time allowed for bringing the action began to run
      
      1.                     Actions for annulment — Actionable measures — Definition — Measures producing binding legal effects — Preparatory measures —
            Not included — Position originally adopted in the procedure for access for the public to Commission documents — Preparatory
            act (Art. 263 TFEU; European Parliament and Council Regulation No 1049/2001) (see paras 29-30)
      2.                     Appeals — Grounds — Inadmissibility of the action before the General Court — Ground involving a question of public policy —
            Considered of the Court’s own motion (see para. 34)
      3.                     Appeals — Pleas in law — Grounds of a judgment vitiated by an infringement of Union law — Operative part sound on other legal
            grounds — Rejection (see para. 35)
      Re:
      
         Appeal against the order of the General Court (Fourth Chamber) of 24 March 2011 in Case T‑36/10 
               Internationaler Hilfsfonds
                v 
               Commission
               , by which that court dismissed as inadmissible in part the application for annulment of the Commission’s decisions of 9 October
                  2009 and 1 December 2009 refusing Internationaler Hilfsfonds full access to the file concerning contract LIEN 97-2011 for
                  the co-financing of a medical aid programme in Kazakhstan — Application inadmissible as being out of time — Incorrect determination
                  of the starting-point of the period allowed for bringing proceedings.
               
            Operative part 
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	The appeal is dismissed.
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Internationaler Hilfsfonds eV is ordered to pay the costs.