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Document 62014CA0442
Case C-442/14: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 23 November 2016 (request for a preliminary ruling from the College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven — Netherlands) — Bayer CropScience SA-NV, Stichting De Bijenstichting v College voor de toelating van gewasbeschermingsmiddelen en biociden (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Environment — Aarhus Convention — Directive 2003/4/EC — Article 4(2) — Public access to information — Concept of ‘information relating to emissions into the environment’ — Directive 91/414/EEC — Directive 98/8/EC — Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 — Placing of plant protection products and biocides on the market — Confidentiality — Protection of industrial and commercial interests)
Case C-442/14: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 23 November 2016 (request for a preliminary ruling from the College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven — Netherlands) — Bayer CropScience SA-NV, Stichting De Bijenstichting v College voor de toelating van gewasbeschermingsmiddelen en biociden (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Environment — Aarhus Convention — Directive 2003/4/EC — Article 4(2) — Public access to information — Concept of ‘information relating to emissions into the environment’ — Directive 91/414/EEC — Directive 98/8/EC — Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 — Placing of plant protection products and biocides on the market — Confidentiality — Protection of industrial and commercial interests)
Case C-442/14: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 23 November 2016 (request for a preliminary ruling from the College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven — Netherlands) — Bayer CropScience SA-NV, Stichting De Bijenstichting v College voor de toelating van gewasbeschermingsmiddelen en biociden (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Environment — Aarhus Convention — Directive 2003/4/EC — Article 4(2) — Public access to information — Concept of ‘information relating to emissions into the environment’ — Directive 91/414/EEC — Directive 98/8/EC — Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 — Placing of plant protection products and biocides on the market — Confidentiality — Protection of industrial and commercial interests)
OJ C 30, 30.1.2017, p. 3–4
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- Date of document:
- 23/11/2016
- Date lodged:
- 24/09/2014
- Author:
- Court of Justice
- Form:
- Judicial information
- Authentic language:
- Dutch
- Type of procedure:
- Reference for a preliminary ruling
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30.1.2017 |
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Official Journal of the European Union |
C 30/3 |
Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 23 November 2016 (request for a preliminary ruling from the College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven — Netherlands) — Bayer CropScience SA-NV, Stichting De Bijenstichting v College voor de toelating van gewasbeschermingsmiddelen en biociden
(Case C-442/14) (1)
((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Environment - Aarhus Convention - Directive 2003/4/EC - Article 4(2) - Public access to information - Concept of ‘information relating to emissions into the environment’ - Directive 91/414/EEC - Directive 98/8/EC - Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 - Placing of plant protection products and biocides on the market - Confidentiality - Protection of industrial and commercial interests))
(2017/C 030/03)
Language of the case: Dutch
Referring court
College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven
Parties to the main proceedings
Applicant: Bayer CropScience SA-NV, Stichting De Bijenstichting
Defendant: College voor de toelating van gewasbeschermingsmiddelen en biociden
third party: Makhtesim-Agan Holland BV
Operative part of the judgment
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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 the fact that the applicant for authorisation to place a plant protection product or biocide on the market, did not, during the procedure for obtaining that authorisation, request that information submitted under that procedure be treated as confidential on the basis of Article 14 of Council Directive 91/414/EEC of 15 July 1991 concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market, Article 19 of Directive 98/8/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 1998 concerning the placing of biocidal products on the market or Article 33(4) and Article 63 of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market and repealing Council Directives 79/117/EEC and 91/414/EEC does not preclude the competent authority, which has received, following the closure of that procedure, a request for access to the information submitted on the basis of Directive 2003/4 by a third party, from examining the applicant’s objection to that request for access and refusing it, if necessary, pursuant to point (d) of the first subparagraph of Article 4(2) of that directive on the ground that the disclosure of that information would adversely affect the confidentiality of commercial or industrial information. |
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The second subparagraph of Article 4(2) of Directive 2003/4 must be interpreted as follows:
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The second subparagraph of Article 4(2) of Directive 2003/4 must be interpreted as meaning, in the event of a request for access to information on emissions into the environment whose disclosure would adversely affect one of the interests referred to in points (a), (d), and (f) to (h) of the first subparagraph of Article 4(2) of that directive, that only relevant data which may be extracted from the source of information concerning emissions into the environment must be disclosed where it is possible to separate those data from the other information contained in that source, which is for the referring court to assess. |
