Order of the General Court of 27 March 2014 — Ecologistas en Acción v Commission

(Case T-603/11) ¹

(Access to documents — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 — Documents relating to the carrying out of an industrial project on a site protected under Directive 92/43/EEC — Documents originating from a Member State — Opposition by the Member State — Refusal of access — Exception relating to the protection of the purpose of inspections, investigations and audits — Exception relating to the protection of court proceedings — Environmental information — Regulation (EC) No 1367/2006 — Action manifestly lacking any foundation in law)

Language of the case: Spanish

Parties

Applicant: Ecologistas en Acción-CODA (Madrid, Spain) (represented by: J. Doreste Hernández, lawyer)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: P. Costa de Oliveira and I. Martínez del Peral, acting as Agents)

Intervening party in support of the defendant: Kingdom of Spain (represented initially by S. Centeno Huerta, then by M. J. García-Valdecasas Dorrego, abogados del Estado)

Re:

Application for annulment of the Commission’s decision of 23 September 2011 refusing to grant the applicant access to certain documents concerning approval of the project to construct a port in Granadilla (Tenerife, Spain), sent 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.    The action is dismissed.

2.    Ecologistas en Acción-CODA is ordered to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission.

3.    The Kingdom of Spain is ordered to bear its own costs.

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¹     OJ C 25, 28.1.2012.