Order of the General Court of 9 February 2017 — Dröge and Others v Commission

(Case T-142/16) (1)

((Action for annulment - Declaration of intent and two Commission decisions on the arrangements for accessing documents concerning the negotiations on a transatlantic trade and investment partnership between the European Union and the United States (TTIP) - Right of access of staff of members of national parliaments to certain confidential documents relating to the TTIP negotiations - Measures against which no action may be brought - Inadmissibility))

(2017/C 112/49)

Language of the case: German

Parties

Applicants: Katharina Dröge (Berlin, Germany), Britta Haßelmann (Berlin), Anton Hofreiter (Berlin) (represented by: Professor W. Cremer)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: F. Erlbacher, R. Vidal Puig and B. Hartmann, acting as Agents)

Re:

Application pursuant to Article 263 TFEU seeking (i) annulment of the Commission’s declaration of intent concerning the conclusion of a treaty binding on the contracting parties — the European Union and the United States of America — as regards the arrangements for accessing documents concerning the negotiations on a transatlantic trade and investment partnership (TTIP), and, in the alternative, a declaration that it is contrary to EU law; (ii) annulment of the Commission’s prior decision concerning the submission of the aforementioned declaration of intent on the authorisation of the agreement and (iii) annulment of the Commission’s oral decision connected with the conclusion of a treaty or a non-binding political agreement with the United States of America on the ‘TTIP access regime’ and classifying that regime as binding under EU law, in so far as it strictly prohibits members of the parliaments of the Member States from being accompanied by vetted staff, including staff of their political group, when viewing documents relating to the TTIP in reading rooms established for that purpose.

Operative part of the order

(1)  OJ C 221, 13.6.2016.