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2012-5 E.C.R. 1 (2012)

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Reports of Cases


        Case T-529/09

        Sophie in 't Veld
              V
Council of the European Union


(Access to documents - Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 - Opinion of the Council's Legal Service on a
recommendation   from the Commission to authorise the opening of negotiations for an international
   agreement -  Partial refusal to grant access - Exception relating to the protection of the public
interest in the field of international relations - Exception relating to the protection of legal advice -
       Specific and foreseeable threat to the interest in question - Overriding public interest)


                                  Summary   of the Judgment


1.  European   Union
    No  1049/2001 -
    Requirement that
    Scope


-   Institutions -  Right of public  access to documents   -  Regulation
Exceptions to the right of access to documents - Refusal to grant access -
the institution should examine the documents specifically and individually -


(European Parliament and Council Regulation No 1049/2001, Art. 4)


2.  European   Union
    No  1049/2001  -
    interest - Judicial


-   Institutions - Right  of public access to  documents  -   Regulation
Exceptions to the right of access to documents - Protection of the public
review - Scope - Limits


    (European Parliament and Council Regulation No 1049/2001, Art. 4(1)(a))

3.  European   Union  -  Institutions -  Right of  public access to  documents  -      Regulation
    No  1049/2001  -  Exceptions to the right of access to documents - Protection of the public
    interest - Scope - Opinion of the Council's Legal Service regarding the legal basis of a decision
    authorising the opening of negotiations for concluding an international agreement - Included

    (European Parliament and Council Regulation No 1049/2001, Art. 4(1)(a), third indent)

4.  Acts of the institutions - Choice of legal basis - Choice must rest on objective factors which are
    amenable  to judicial review

    (Art. 5 TEU)

5.  European   Union  -  Institutions -  Right of  public access to  documents  -      Regulation
    No  1049/2001  -  Exceptions to the right of access to documents - Protection of the public
    interest - Disclosure of a legal opinion on  the opening of negotiations for concluding an
    international agreement -  Risk of a threat to a protected public interest arising from the
    disclosure of the existence of doubts regarding the choice of the legal basis - Absence

    (Art. 218(11) TFEU; European Parliament  and Council Regulation No 1049/2001, Art. 4(1)(a),
    third indent)


ECLJ:EU:T:2012:2151


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