Judgment of the General Court of 7 June 2011 - Toland v Parliament
(Access to documents - Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 - Audit report on the parliamentary assistance allowance - Refusal of access - Exception relating to protection of the purpose of inspections, investigations and audits - Exception relating to protection of the decision-making process)
Language of the case: English
Parties
Applicant: Ciarán Toland (Dublin, Ireland) (represented by: A. Burke, Solicitor, E. Regan, SC, and J. Newman, Barrister)
Defendant: European Parliament (represented by: H. Krück, N. Lorenz and D. Moore, acting as Agents)
Interveners in support of the applicant : Kingdom of Denmark (represented by B. Weis Fogh and C. Vang, acting as Agents), Republic of Finland (represented by J. Heliskoski, A. Guimaraes-Purokoski and H. Leppo, acting as Agents), Kingdom of Sweden (represented by A. Falk, S. Johannesson and K. Petkovska, acting as Agents)
Re:
Application for partial annulment of the decision of the European Parliament of 11 August 2008, Reference No A (2008) 10636, in so far as it refuses access to Report No 06/02 of the Internal Audit Service entitled 'Audit of the Parliamentary Assistance Allowance'
Operative part of the judgment
The Court:
Annuls the decision of the European Parliament of 11 August 2008, Reference No A (2008) 10636, in so far as it refuses access to Report No 06/02 of the Internal Audit Service of the Parliament of 9 January 2008 entitled 'Audit of the Parliamentary Assistance Allowance';
Orders the Parliament to bear its own costs and to pay the costs incurred by Mr Ciarán Toland;
Orders the Kingdom of Denmark, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden to bear their own costs.
____________1 - OJ C 32, 7.2.2009.