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Case T-471/08: Judgment of the General Court of 7 June 2011 — Toland v Parliament (Access to documents — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 — Audit report on the parliamentary assistance allowance — Refusal of access — Exception relating to protection of the purpose of inspections, investigations and audits — Exception relating to protection of the decision-making process)

SL C 211, 16.7.2011, p. 23–23 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

16.7.2011   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 211/23


Judgment of the General Court of 7 June 2011 — Toland v Parliament

(Case T-471/08) (1)

(Access to documents - Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 - Audit report on the parliamentary assistance allowance - Refusal of access - Exception relating to protection of the purpose of inspections, investigations and audits - Exception relating to protection of the decision-making process)

2011/C 211/49

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Ciarán Toland (Dublin, Ireland) (represented by: A. Burke, Solicitor, E. Regan, SC, and J. Newman, Barrister)

Defendant: European Parliament (represented by: H. Krück, N. Lorenz and D. Moore, acting as Agents)

Interveners in support of the applicant: Kingdom of Denmark (represented by B. Weis Fogh and C. Vang, acting as Agents), Republic of Finland (represented by J. Heliskoski, A. Guimaraes-Purokoski and H. Leppo, acting as Agents), Kingdom of Sweden (represented by A. Falk, S. Johannesson and K. Petkovska, acting as Agents)

Re:

Application for partial annulment of the decision of the European Parliament of 11 August 2008, Reference No A(2008) 10636, in so far as it refuses access to Report No 06/02 of the Internal Audit Service entitled ‘Audit of the Parliamentary Assistance Allowance’

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1.

Annuls the decision of the European Parliament of 11 August 2008, Reference No A(2008) 10636, in so far as it refuses access to Report No 06/02 of the Internal Audit Service of the Parliament of 9 January 2008 entitled ‘Audit of the Parliamentary Assistance Allowance’;

2.

Orders the Parliament to bear its own costs and to pay the costs incurred by Mr Ciarán Toland;

3.

Orders the Kingdom of Denmark, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden to bear their own costs.


(1)  OJ C 32, 7.2.2009.


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