Order of the General Court of 6 September 2011 - ClientEarth v Council
(Action for annulment - Representation by a lawyer who is not a third party - Manifest inadmissibility)
Language of the case: English
Parties
Applicant: ClientEarth (London, United Kingdom) (represented by: S. Hockman QC, and P. Kirch, lawyer)
Defendant: Council of the European Union (represented by: C. Fekete and B. Driessen, Agents)
Intervening parties on behalf of the applicant: Kingdom of Denmark (represented by C. Vang and S. Juul Jørgensen Agents); Republic of Finland (represented by H. Leppo and M. Pere, Agents); and Kingdom of Sweden (represented by K. Petkovska, A. Falk, S. Johannesson and C. Meyer-Seitz, Agents)
Re:
APPLICATION for annulment of the Council decision of 26 July 2010 refusing to grant the applicant full access to an opinion of the Council's Legal Service (Document No 6865/09) on the European Parliament's draft amendments to the Commission's proposal for a regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents (OJ 2001 L 145, p. 43).
Operative part of the order
The action is dismissed as being manifestly inadmissible.
ClientEarth shall bear its own costs and also pay those incurred by the Council of the European Union.
3. The Kingdom of Denmark, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden shall bear their own respective costs.
____________1 - OJ C 328, 4.12.2010.