CELEX: 62011TA0093
Language: en
Date: 2013-06-07 00:00:00
Title: Case T-93/11: Judgment of the General Court of 7 June 2013 — Stichting Corporate Europe Observatory v Commission (Access to documents — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 — Documents concerning the negotiations between the European Union and the Republic of India for the purposes of concluding a free trade agreement — Refusal of access — Exception relating to the protection of the public interest in the field of international relations — Documents which have entered the public domain — Non-imposition of a restriction on disclosure of documents)

3.8.2013   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 225/67
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 7 June 2013 — Stichting Corporate Europe Observatory v Commission
   (Case T-93/11) (1)
   
   (Access to documents - Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 - Documents concerning the negotiations between the European Union and the Republic of India for the purposes of concluding a free trade agreement - Refusal of access - Exception relating to the protection of the public interest in the field of international relations - Documents which have entered the public domain - Non-imposition of a restriction on disclosure of documents)
   2013/C 225/148
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Stichting Corporate Europe Observatory (Amsterdam, Netherlands) (represented by: S. Crosby, Solicitor, and S. Santoro, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: initially, F. Clotuche-Duvieusart and C. ten Dam, and subsequently F. Clotuche-Duvieusart and I. Zervas, Agents)
   
      Intervener in support of the defendant: Federal Republic of Germany (represented by: T. Henze, J. Möller, K. Petersen and A. Wiedmann, Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of the decision of the Commission of 6 December 2010 refusing the applicant full access to several documents relating to the negotiations between the European Union and the Republic of India aimed at concluding a free trade agreement, pursuant to the third indent of Article 4(1)(a) 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).
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The General Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the applicant to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Federal Republic of Germany to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 113, 9.4.2011.