Notices for publication in the OJ nº T-255/20 of Tribunal General de la Unión Europea, July 10, 2020

• Resolution Date: July 10, 2020
• Issuing Organization: Tribunal General de la Unión Europea
• Decision Number: T-255/20

Action brought on 4 May 2020 - ClientEarth v Commission

(Case T-255/20)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: ClientEarth AISBL (Brussels, Belgium) (represented by: F. Logue, Solicitor, and J. Kenny, Barrister-at-law)

Defendant: European Commission

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:

annul the implied decision of the European Commission dated 26 February 2020 in case GESTDEM No 2019/6819 refusing the applicant’s request for access to documents in part;

rule on the costs and order the European Commission to pay the applicant’s costs as well as order any intervening parties to carry their own costs

Pleas in law and main arguments

In support of the action, the applicant relies on three pleas in law.

First plea in law, alleging that the Commission committed manifest errors of assessment and errors of law resulting in the misapplication of the protection of the decision-making process exception (second subparagraph of Article 4(3) Regulation No 1049/2001) ¹ and failed to state reasons (Article 296 TFEU) because:

there is no decision-making process that would be seriously undermined by the partial disclosure of section 4 of the minutes of the 79th Meeting of the ‘Technical Committee - Motor Vehicles’, held in Brussels on 12 February 2019 (‘Document B’);

the Commission did not demonstrate that partial disclosure of section 4 of Document B would seriously undermine its decision-making process.

Second plea in law, alleging that the Commission committed manifest errors of...