Order of the General Court of 23 March 2012 - Ecologistas en Acción v Commission
(Case T-341/11)
(Access to documents - Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 - Implied refusal of access - Interest in bringing proceedings - Express decision adopted after the bringing of the action - No need to adjudicate)
Language of the case: Spanish
Parties
Applicant: Ecologistas en Acción-CODA (Madrid, Spain) (represented by: J. Doreste Hernández, lawyer)
Defendant: European Commission (represented by: I. Martínez del Peral and P. Costa de Oliveira, Agents)
Intervener in support of the defendant: Kingdom of Spain (represented initially by: M. Muñoz Pérez and J.M. Rodriguez Cârcamo, lawyers, thereafter by S. Centeno Huerta, lawyer)
Re:
Application for annulment of the Commission's implied decision refusing the applicant access to certain documents concerning the approval of the project for the construction of a port in Granadilla (Tenerife, Spain) supplied by the Spanish authorities to the Commission pursuant to Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora (OJ 1992 L 206, p. 7).
Operative part of the order
1. There is no longer any need to adjudicate on the action.
2. The European Commission is ordered to pay its own costs and those incurred by Ecologistas en Acción-CODA.
3. The Kingdom of Spain shall bear its own costs.
____________1 - OJ C 252, 27.8.2011.