1. 

EU institutions – Right of public access to documents – Regulation No 1049/2001 – Exceptions to the right of access to documents – Protection of legal advice –Definition – Scope – Disclosure of legal opinions concerning legislative processes – Sensitive nature – Scope of the assessment

(European Parliament and Council Regulation No 1049/2001, Art. 4(2), second indent)

(see paragraphs 35-38, 61, 65, 67, 90)

2. 

EU institutions – Right of public access to documents – Regulation No 1049/2001 – Exceptions to the right of access to documents – Protection of legal advice – Overriding public interest justifying the disclosure of documents – Definition – Requirement that the institution should weigh the opposing interests – Disclosure of legal opinions concerning legislative processes – Obligation on the institution to state in detail its reasons for any decision refusing access

(European Parliament and Council Regulation No 1049/2001, Art. 4(2), second indent)

(see paragraphs 39-43)

3. 

EU institutions – Right of public access to documents – Regulation No 1049/2001 – Exceptions to the right of access to documents – Protection of the decision-making process – Conditions – Concrete, actual and serious detriment to that process – Scope

(European Parliament and Council Regulation No 1049/2001, Art. 4(3), first subpara.)

(see paragraphs 81, 83, 86, 88)

1. 

Dismisses the appeal;

2. 

Orders the Council of the European Union to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Mr Laurent Pech;

3. 

Orders the French Republic, the Kingdom of Sweden and the European Commission to bear their own costs.