Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 21 January 2021

Päivi Leino-Sandberg v European Parliament

Appeal – Access to documents of the EU institutions – Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 – Article 10 – Refusal to grant access – Action before the General Court of the European Union against a decision by the European Parliament refusing to grant access to a document – Disclosure of the annotated document by a third party after the action was lodged – Order that there was no need to adjudicate pronounced by the General Court on the ground that was no longer any interest in bringing proceedings – Error of law

Case C-761/18 P



Top of the page Documents in the Case
Document Date Name of the parties Subject-matter Curia EUR-Lex Autres Liens
Judgment (OJ)
19/02/2021 Leino-Sandberg v Parliament
Judgment
ECLI:EU:C:2021:52
21/01/2021 Leino-Sandberg v Parliament
Abstract
ECLI:EU:C:2021:52
21/01/2021 Leino-Sandberg v Parliament
Application (OJ)
15/02/2019 Leino-Sandberg v Parliament
Opinion
ECLI:EU:C:2020:595
16/07/2020 Leino-Sandberg v Parliament
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Reports of Cases

not yet published (Court Reports - general)

Subject-matter

Information not available

Systematic classification scheme

1.
2 Institutional framework of the European Union
  2.03 Right of public access to documents
    2.03.06 Contentious procedure
      2.03.06.01 Admissibility and jurisdiction
        2.03.06.01.01 Interest in bringing proceedings
3 Legal proceedings
  3.02 Actions for annulment
    3.02.03 Applications by natural or legal persons
      3.02.03.01 Interest in bringing proceedings


Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

Operative part

Opinion


Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

  • 03/12/2018

Date of the Opinion

  • 16/07/2020

Date of the hearing

Information not available

Date of delivery

21/01/2021


References

Publication in the Official Journal

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Name of the parties

Leino-Sandberg v Parliament

Notes on Academic Writings

  1. Bruyas, Pierrick: Transparence - Accès aux documents, Europe 2021, nº 3 Mars, comm. 83 (FR)



Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

Information not available

Subject-matter

  • Provisions governing the institutions
  • - Access to documents

Provisions of national law referred to

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Provisions of international law referred to

Information not available

Procedure and result

  • Actions for annulment
  • Appeals : application granted

Formation of the Court

cinquième chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Jarukaitis

Advocate General

Bobek

Language(s) of the Case

  • English

Language(s) of the Opinion

  • English