Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 01/20/2021

Subject: The Court affirmed that Directive 2003/4/EC on public access to environmental information must be interpreted as meaning that the term ‘internal communications’ covers all information which circulates within a public authority and which, on the date of the request for access, has not left that authority’s internal sphere – as the case may be, after being received by that authority, provided that it was not or should not have been made available to the public before it was so received. The applicability of the exception to the right of access to environmental information provided for by it in respect of internal communications of a public authority is not limited in time. However, that exception can apply only for the period during which protection of the information sought is justified

Parties: Land Baden-Württemberg (Communications internes)

Classification: Solidarity - Art. 37 Environmental protection

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