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Title: Case T-245/11: Judgment of the General Court of 23 September 2015 — ClientEarth and International Chemical Secretariat v ECHA (Access to documents — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 — Documents held by ECHA — Documents deriving from a third party — Time-limit for response to an application for access — Refusal of access — Exception relating to protection of the commercial interests of a third party — Exception relating to protection of the decision-making process — Overriding public interest — Environmental information — Emissions into the environment)
Date: 2015-09-23T02:00:00.000+02:00
Metadata: {"title": "Case T-245/11: Judgment of the General Court of 23 September 2015 \u2014 ClientEarth and International Chemical Secretariat v ECHA (Access to documents \u2014 Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 \u2014 Documents held by ECHA \u2014 Documents deriving from a third party \u2014 Time-limit for response to an application for access \u2014 Refusal of access \u2014 Exception relating to protection of the commercial interests of a third party \u2014 Exception relating to protection of the decision-making process \u2014 Overriding public interest \u2014 Environmental information \u2014 Emissions into the environment)", "celex": "62011TA0245", "date_of_document": "2015-09-23T00:00:00.000Z", "ecli": "ECLI:EU:UNKNOWN:62011TA0245", "author": "General Court", "form": "Judicial information"}

#### 9.11.2015   

EN

#### Official Journal of the European Union

#### C 371/20

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# Judgment of the General Court of 23 September 2015 — ClientEarth and International Chemical Secretariat v ECHA

(Case T-245/11)(Access to documents - Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 - Documents held by ECHA - Documents deriving from a third party - Time-limit for response to an application for access - Refusal of access - Exception relating to protection of the commercial interests of a third party - Exception relating to protection of the decision-making process - Overriding public interest - Environmental information - Emissions into the environment)

(2015/C 371/22)

Language of the case: English

## **Parties**

*Applicants: ClientEarth (London, United Kingdom) and The International Chemical Secretariat (Gothenburg, Sweden) (represented by: P. Kirch, lawyer)*

Defendant: European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) (represented by: M. Heikkilä, A. Iber and T. Zbihlej, acting as Agents, and by D. Abrahams, Barrister)

Interveners in support of the defendant: European Commission (represented initially by E. Manhaeve, P. Oliver and C. ten Dam, and subsequently by E. Manhaeve, P. Oliver and F. Clotuche-Duvieusart, and latterly by E. Manhaeve, F. Clotuche-Duvieusart and J. Tomkim, acting as Agents); and European Chemical Industry Council (Cefic) (Brussels, Belgium) (represented by: Y. van Gerven and M. Bronckers, lawyers)

## **Re:**

Application for the annulment of the ECHA decision of 4 March 2011 refusing access to information supplied in the context of the procedure for registration of certain chemical substances.

## **Operative part of the judgment**

The Court:

    Declares that there is no need to adjudicate on the action for annulment of the decision of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) of 4 March 2011, in so far as it refused to disclose information requested by point 1 of the request for information, to the extent that point 1 concerns the names and contact details of 6  611 companies which were accessible over the Internet on 23 April 2014;

    Annuls the ECHA decision of 4 March 2011 in so far as it refused to disclose information requested by point 1 of the request for information, to the extent that point 1 concerns information not yet disclosed on 23 April 2014;

    Dismisses the action as to the remainder;

    Orders each party, including the European Commission and the European Chemical Industry Council (Cefic), to bear its own costs.

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[^]: (1) OJ C 194, 2.7.2011.

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[^]: Language of the case: English