CELEX: 62008TA0471
Language: en
Date: 2011-06-07 00:00:00
Title: Case T-471/08: Judgment of the General Court of 7 June 2011 — Toland v Parliament (Access to documents — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 — Audit report on the parliamentary assistance allowance — Refusal of access — Exception relating to protection of the purpose of inspections, investigations and audits — Exception relating to protection of the decision-making process)

16.7.2011   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 211/23
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 7 June 2011 — Toland v Parliament
   (Case T-471/08) (1)
   
   (Access to documents - Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 - Audit report on the parliamentary assistance allowance - Refusal of access - Exception relating to protection of the purpose of inspections, investigations and audits - Exception relating to protection of the decision-making process)
   2011/C 211/49
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Ciarán Toland (Dublin, Ireland) (represented by: A. Burke, Solicitor, E. Regan, SC, and J. Newman, Barrister)
   
      Defendant: European Parliament (represented by: H. Krück, N. Lorenz and D. Moore, acting as Agents)
   
      Interveners in support of the applicant: Kingdom of Denmark (represented by B. Weis Fogh and C. Vang, acting as Agents), Republic of Finland (represented by J. Heliskoski, A. Guimaraes-Purokoski and H. Leppo, acting as Agents), Kingdom of Sweden (represented by A. Falk, S. Johannesson and K. Petkovska, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for partial annulment of the decision of the European Parliament of 11 August 2008, Reference No A(2008) 10636, in so far as it refuses access to Report No 06/02 of the Internal Audit Service entitled ‘Audit of the Parliamentary Assistance Allowance’
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the decision of the European Parliament of 11 August 2008, Reference No A(2008) 10636, in so far as it refuses access to Report No 06/02 of the Internal Audit Service of the Parliament of 9 January 2008 entitled ‘Audit of the Parliamentary Assistance Allowance’;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Parliament to bear its own costs and to pay the costs incurred by Mr Ciarán Toland;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Kingdom of Denmark, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden to bear their own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 32, 7.2.2009.