CELEX: 62009TA0233
Language: en
Date: 2011-03-22 00:00:00
Title: Case T-233/09: Judgment of the General Court of 22 March 2011 — Access Info Europe v Council (Access to documents — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 — Document concerning an ongoing legislative procedure — Partial refusal of access — Action for annulment — Period allowed for bringing proceedings — Admissibility — Disclosure by a third party — Interest in bringing proceedings not lost — Identification of the Member State delegations which made proposals — Exception relating to the protection of the decision-making process)

7.5.2011   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 139/16
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 22 March 2011 — Access Info Europe v Council
   (Case T-233/09) (1)
   
   (Access to documents - Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 - Document concerning an ongoing legislative procedure - Partial refusal of access - Action for annulment - Period allowed for bringing proceedings - Admissibility - Disclosure by a third party - Interest in bringing proceedings not lost - Identification of the Member State delegations which made proposals - Exception relating to the protection of the decision-making process)
   2011/C 139/31
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Access Info Europe (Madrid, Spain) (represented by: O.W. Brouwer and J. Blockx, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Council of the European Union (represented by: C. Fekete and M. Bauer, Agents)
   
      Interveners in support of the defendant: Hellenic Republic (represented by E.-M. Mamouna and K. Boskovits, Agents) and by United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (represented by E. Jenkinson and S. Ossowski, Agents, and by L.J. Stratford, Barrister)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of the decision of the Council of 26 February 2009 refusing in part to grant the applicant access to a note from the General Secretariat of the Council to the Working Party on Information (Document No 16338/08) concerning the Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and the Council regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the Council’s decision of 26 February 2009 refusing access to certain information, contained in a note of 26 November 2008, concerning a proposal for a regulation regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Council to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Access Info Europe;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Hellenic Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to bear their own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 205, 29.8.2009