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Document 62010CA0071
Case C-71/10: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 28 July 2011 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (United Kingdom) — Office of Communications v Information Commissioner (Public access to environmental information — Directive 2003/4/EC — Article 4 — Exceptions to the right of access — Request for access involving more than one of the interests protected under Article 4(2) of that directive)
Case C-71/10: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 28 July 2011 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (United Kingdom) — Office of Communications v Information Commissioner (Public access to environmental information — Directive 2003/4/EC — Article 4 — Exceptions to the right of access — Request for access involving more than one of the interests protected under Article 4(2) of that directive)
Case C-71/10: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 28 July 2011 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (United Kingdom) — Office of Communications v Information Commissioner (Public access to environmental information — Directive 2003/4/EC — Article 4 — Exceptions to the right of access — Request for access involving more than one of the interests protected under Article 4(2) of that directive)
OJ C 298, 8.10.2011, p. 6–6
(BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)
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8.10.2011 |
EN |
Official Journal of the European Union |
C 298/6 |
Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 28 July 2011 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (United Kingdom) — Office of Communications v Information Commissioner
(Case C-71/10) (1)
(Public access to environmental information - Directive 2003/4/EC - Article 4 - Exceptions to the right of access - Request for access involving more than one of the interests protected under Article 4(2) of that directive)
2011/C 298/09
Language of the case: English
Referring court
Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Parties
Respondent: Office of Communications
Appellant: Information Commissioner
Re:
Reference for a preliminary ruling — Supreme Court of the United Kingdom — Interpretation of Article 4(2)(b) and (e) of Directive 2003/4/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2003 on public access to environmental information and repealing Council Directive 90/313/EEC (OJ 2003 L 41, p. 26) — Exceptions to the right of access — Request for access involving more than one of the interests protected under Article 4(2) of the directive, the adverse effect on each interest being insufficient in itself to justify refusal of access
Operative part of the judgment
Article 4(2) of Directive 2003/4/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2003 on public access to environmental information and repealing Council Directive 90/313/EEC must be interpreted as meaning that, where a public authority holds environmental information or such information is held on its behalf, it may, when weighing the public interests served by disclosure against the interests served by refusal to disclose, in order to assess a request for that information to be made available to a natural or legal person, take into account cumulatively a number of the grounds for refusal set out in that provision.