Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 11/13/2015

Subject: According to the General Court, impact assessments intended to guide the Commission in drawing up its proposals for legislative acts are not, in principle, to be accessible to the public before those proposals have been disclosed. Premature access to those documents could seriously undermine the Commission’s decision-making process

Parties: ClientEarth c. Commissione

Classification: Citizens’ rights - Art. 42 Right to access documents of EU institutions

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